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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s an interesting angle -

How does one fully recover when their addiction /overdose is displayed in national/social media?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/us/overdoses-youtube-opioids-drugs.html?referringSource=articleShare[/quote]

Great article. This is the money quote:

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Addiction experts say the videos are doing little else than publicly shaming drug users, and the blunt horror of the images may actually increase the stigma against them. Users themselves disagree on whether the humiliation helped them clean up their lives.

“We’re showing you this video of them at the worst, most humiliating moment of their life,” said Daniel Raymond, deputy director of policy and planning at the Harm Reduction Coalition, an advocacy group. “The intent is not to help these people. The intent is to use them as an object lesson by scapegoating them.”[/i]

And of course the police defend themselves in that article, re: posting these humiliating videos on the Internet. So many of them have lost their humanity for those they deem as "less than."\

Honestly, I think this thread is kinda gross. The OP is not offering solutions, but instead wants us to wallow in the spectacle of addiction in America. [/quote]

I firmly disagree.

Social pressure is the biggest and most useful factor in getting people to quit habits and change. It was social pressure that encouraged people to quit smoking on an enormous scale. Cigarettes became so firmly associated with negative attitudes that people were embarrassed to be smoking and that was a big motivation in quitting, as well as discouraging younger people from taking up the habit.

We may not be able to do much for the current junkies, but we can send powerful messages to the next generation and these videos go a very long way in helping send that message.

Right now I'm worried that all these "fat acceptance" in advertising and videos are going to do far more long term harm than any short term liberal good feelings by encouraging people it's ok to be fat. Because it really isn't. [/quote]

You sound a bit sadistic. And that's not a compliment.

I agree that "scared straight" has a time and a place. But dozens of videos of junkies in Philadelphia is pure misery porn and voyeurism. The people who make these videos and consume them for hours on end are sick people with a fetish. [/quote]

You sound like a complete head-in-the-sand ostrich, who would rather ignore the problem from the safety of your own home.

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