DRUG ABUSE: CULTURAL REACTIONSThese messages are carried by many young people today and provoke the establishment to be against drugs. The young person on drugs who is supposed to be going out and conquering life is, in the minds of his elders, giving up because he is depressed, hopeless, or angry at the social structure around him. Therefore simply revolting against the junkie by trying to wipe out heroin addiction will not solve the tension and differences of belief between the old and the young.Mao’s solution to the drug problem was to force withdrawal by detainment in a work camp. Clearly Mao is going to have a greater cure rate than any western drug clinic, which at best claims that 30 percent of the addicts successfully withdraw. Though successful, such pressure does not take into consideration the counter-culture aspects of drug taking, the fact that part of the addict’s message is that the world as it is is unacceptable.*111\227\8*
Archive for Anti-Psychotics
DRUG ABUSE: CULTURAL REACTIONS
These messages are carried by many young people today and provoke the establishment to be against drugs. The young person on drugs who is supposed to be going out and conquering life is, in the minds of his elders, giving up because he is depressed, hopeless, or angry at the social structure around him. Therefore simply revolting against the junkie by trying to wipe out heroin addiction will not solve the tension and differences of belief between the old and the young.
Mao’s solution to the drug problem was to force withdrawal by detainment in a work camp. Clearly Mao is going to have a greater cure rate than any western drug clinic, which at best claims that 30 percent of the addicts successfully withdraw. Though successful, such pressure does not take into consideration the counter-culture aspects of drug taking, the fact that part of the addict’s message is that the world as it is is unacceptable.
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