*w h i s p e r s* 'treatment' is worthless theater if you're an addict. when the state tries to kick its addiction to prohibition, 'treatment' is its rhetorical/financial/operational methadone.https://twitter.com/NinjaEconomics/status/956134489196908544 …
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The state has a process for scooping up ne'er-do-wells, condemning them, and institutionalizing them. It can't stop, but it can change the wording. So treatment instead of prison, therapy instead of probation.
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The state _needs_ that sweet flow of condemned bodies to keep the correctional jobs, funding, surveillance operations going. They can't just quit cold turkey.
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"The state" is what we call thuggish red tribe cops and bleeding heart blue tribe social workers when they work together for a common cause (a paycheck).
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