And thus could be deported if I say too much too fast publicly before I get citizenship

"don't be a criminal you nigger"

what about the people who deserve to do time because they did something, get fucked in the prison system, and then become recidivists?

I mean, right now it's for profit which is anti-recovery

They say rehabilitation is the solution, I partially believe that.

The current issue is, there is too much fence riding

to way for profit prisons are run, they have every incentive to make offenders worse people

You get fucking cons who kill families and get out early due to good behavior, and do it again

And then meth heads who just need a little rehab

Right now, we're between recovery and full on penal life.

If they locked up killers for life, the relapses would stop technically.

many offenders can be rehabilitated, and they need to be, there are those who cannot be, and they should be removed from society

If they did recovery, there would be less relapsing too.

Right now we're just in a shitty place. This is due to Americans being eternal fence riders, especially if there is a profit to be had from it.

Agreed fully Nic

The prisons themselves need a lot of reform, but making it easier for felons to get out of prison is retarded. Anyone involved in the drug trade, especially for shit like heroin should be killed by the state. Massive finical fraud should also be punished in a similar manner. Having these people back on the street at all looks terrible for the 'law and order' candidate. I don't have any sympathy for violent offenders or anyone involved in trafficking drugs except the addicts themselves.

Shit like weed or LSD isn't as bad so you could have less punishments for that, but anyone who traffics, deals, or produces opioids should be killed.

Including those at Purdue

I think opioids do have a legitimate medical use, they are being given to patients in a way thats irresponsible

I think they only really have a use for immediate trauma care. The Sackler brothers completely manipulated medical journals in order to focus on long term treatment of pain with them.

They own the name brand, the generic, and the treatment.

Every time you open your mouth I slap my forehead

I'll keep typing then

I got OxyContin when I had my wisdom teeth taken out. That shit was wild

I can see exactly how people get addicted to it

Addiction is more than the drugs

Just like anything else, there is more to it than drug X

Opioids are pretty addictive by themselves, really more so than any other drug. In addition, a lot of the pill mills were placed in poor areas, precisely because low agency people would become addicted to them.

Purdue is very predatory with their selling of opioids.

Yes, that’s part of it. There are a lot of people at different levels that made a lot of money off of pushing pain meds.

They did similar stuff with Valium in the 70's-80's too.

And cocaine in the 30s

And heroin before that

It changes decade to decade but there is always some substance

I don't think those are really comparable, the opioid crisis is now so bad that the US has a decreasing live expectancy. There's tens of thousands of deaths every year because of it.

Think of it this way

When they die off, our expectancy goes up

/s

The problem isn't a drug company conspiracy

It's the fact that, pound for pound, there is no pain medication as effective as opiates yet available for human consumption.

Sure, a lot of pain can be managed by therapy, but stretching and exercise aren't going to deal with the pain of say, burns or surgery.