You don’t tell them the drug addicts are actually on site until after they book;)
Mwahahaha XD
Ah social problems. We'd need more than a few beers to sort this one out. Yes, the govt gets in the way. On the whole though, according to research by Ste Pinker, society is getting better and less violent. Drug addiction is generally self-medication for psychological issues often caused by having some sort of familial dysfunction early in life. It's nice to help them in their hour of need but in order to fix the problem, we need to get them years earlier. How do we do that? Eek!
It's nice of you and your bro to help them.
I think the problem lies in the way we treat addiction as a social problem rather than a health/medical issue. There is some evidence to indicate that isolation is one of the big drivers of addiction, so social exclusion can only exacerbate the problem. Also, returning to the old drug-ridden environment almost assures relapse.
Of course we could sort most of it out in months if we just killed the war on drugs.
Amen to that! It's the most ridiculous concept!
I think there's a chicken/egg situation here. What's first? Isolation or the drug problem? I've known some addicts (suppose we all have, eh). They self-isolated, only bothering with others that were reflecting similar behaviours, possibly to make themselves feel more normal about what they were doing. Saying that, it's difficult to maintain loving/caring ties with someone who's just hocked your new phone or Nanna's pearls.