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[-] ninjakttty@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

First not everyone who’s addicted is self medicating. Second even if they are why laugh at them for something that could make their lives a little easier/better?

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I think the person who you're replying to wasn't laughing at people with addiction problems at all, rather they were pouring scorn and skepticism on the idea that some wonder drug can fix all the problems of people who end up with drug addictions.

Let's take homeless people for example (who are frequently people who were in the care system as children, so don't have parents or relatives to go back and live with when money gets too tight).

All the things that I do to cope with my (much less serious) problems, like chill on the sofa on my phone, take a long bath, go for a nap on my bed, hang out with my friends at the pub, talk it all over with my wife or my dad, none of those are open to them. Sleeping rough is painful. How do you escape that?

So to expand on what @gibmiser@lemmy.world said, if you treat the drug addiction of a homeless person on its own, you will completely and utterly fail to treat the drug addiction problem.

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