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Rick Ohrstrom is Sober but Pissed
We in the recovery community are digesting with difficulty the stunning news that 180 million prescriptions for anti-depressants were written in the US last year.
The elusive sweet spot. Dang it -- I know it exists and I'm not talking about the latest Cosmo super sex turn-on that we can all injure our wrists trying to find, but that elusive policy place somewhere between outright prohibition and the madness (surely more than reefer induced) of legalization. We the masses and our cynical, though rarely ignorant, political masters have certainly thoroughly explored the poles but never the center.Now with Obama and his putative breath of fresh air, the legalizers sense it’s their turn of the screw. Soros, Nadelman and their merry crew of pot-puffing assistants are determined to skip the public health median on their way to full-scale, open-access of state of affairs that will inevitably be in the Bulldog's book create a legitimate public health crisis. Why can't the ideologues ever learn to steal their opponent’s best stuff-- that's always been the mark of master politicians since time immemorial? They're just too sure to find a cure. Why not combine the best of early client engagement (harm reduction) from one end with lifetime incarceration for professional traffickers from the other? Why can't we ever have the whole menu to choose from? Because ideologues are profoundly in love with Mencken's dilemma, which for those of you who are ignorant was the following, "For every complex problem there is usually a simple answer, and...it's wrong."For ideologues there are always simple answers to complex problems and the simpler they are the more wrong they are. We certainly know that by now. The Bulldog's plea is, just this one time let's look at the whole menu. Let's dig a hole in the policy morass and put Nadelman and crew in with the Bush bunch and bury the policy of the poles forever. Otherwise to continue to mangle the metaphor we will continue to starve….
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