New York Alcohol Rehab Announces No-Cost Consultations Now Available For …
Alcohol Addiction Treatment Centers makes sure people get the help they want and need in order to change their lives. Instead of living by the bottle, alcohol rehab and effective treatment teaches adults and adolescents different life skills. It does … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Pax House Is the Most Effective Rehab in Los Angeles for Drug Addicts
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, people who live in California, especially those in Los Angeles, have been found to be more prone to drug addiction, probably because of their easy availability and low cost in the city. Many California … Read more on SBWire (press release)

What doctor shortage? Some experts say changes in delivery will erase need for …
The average cost of a 14-day episode for the 10 most common diagnoses treated in a retail clinic was $ 484 to $ 543, depending on the state, according to a report in the November Health Affairs. The comparable cost of treatment for those diagnoses in … Read more on Crain’s Detroit Business

Halifax food bank focuses on HIV-positive clients
He has lived with HIV for two decades. The cost of treatment drugs and the difficulty of finding work drive many to the food bank, he said. “Food has gotten so expensive. It's very important that we have this food bank and actually we need to grow this … Read more on CBC.ca

Wichita Drug Rehab Announces New Video Explaining Services Offered …
A Wichita drug rehab center is launching a new video explaining services and opportunities available for people seeking drug addiction support through Drug Addiction Treatment Centers in Wichita and surrounding cities. These other cities include Valley … Read more on PR Web (press release)

Successful Italian drug rehab centre wants to go American
It was the magic number that the assembled experts at the World Bank impressed most: 72%. That is the follow-up success rate for drug addicts who completed the San Patrignano long-term program. Compare that with US institutions which usually have … Read more on euronews

Advocate for recovering addicts arrested in Bensalem
Devin Fox, who is a recovery advocate in NJ and a founding member of a national nonprofit organization for drug addicts in recovery called Young People in Recovery is arrested in Bensalem after breaking into a woman?s house ? though he claims he … Read more on Bucks County Courier Times

As many seek to put a face on addiction and recovery, anonymity gets a second …
Betsey DeGree initially hoped that she could have her face blocked out and her voice disguised for an interview that she'd agreed to do with ABC-TV's “Nightline.” But a producer convinced the White Bear Lake mom that her story of abusing her son's … Read more on MinnPost.com

Matthew Perry opens up on addiction, recovery
Best known as Chandler Bing from the sitcom “Friends,” he has more recently starred in NBC's “Go On” and other TV shows and movies. Now he's traveling to colleges across the country to share his testimony on his recovery from addiction and sponsoring … Read more on The Daily Pennsylvanian

MS Contin Addiction & MS Contin Abuse

Question by Anonymous Anonymous: Why is it illogical to argue that marijuana should be legal because alcohol is more harmful, yet legal?
Is it not reasonable to expect the legal substances to be safer than the illegal ones? Preventing potential harm to oneself/others is the basis for outlawing substances in the first place, right?

Please only answer my question, no ramblings on the topic in general.

Best answer:

Answer by tomusiaka
You should not assume that a substance is less harmful just because it’s legal. There are many legal drugs in pharmacy that are much more harmful to you than marijuana and some other drugs that are illegal. Also, glues and other chemicals that can make you high are legal but they are very harmful to your body.

People who want to make marijuana legal have other reasons, too. For example, there are couple countries where legalizing drugs made people use them less and safer, or that if someone wants to hurt himself, he will do it any other way using any other substance that is legal or just will buy an illegal drug from a drug dealer that potentially could be even more harmful because it is not regulated by the law.

People who don’t want to make marijuana legal believe that making it legal would make a lot of people use it and hurt themselves and others. Hurting others would include families (father got addicted and is not supporting his own family), other drivers (driving when “on high” can be life threatening), other poeple (accidental) and government’s budget (more accidents would mean more filled up hospitals and drug addicts usually can’t afford to pay their medical bills because they spend all their money on drugs).

There are other valid arguments on both sides though but the one you gave is actually not a valid one.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

Question by Anonymous Anonymous: Why is it illogical to argue that marijuana should be legal because alcohol is more harmful, yet legal?
Is it not reasonable to expect the legal substances to be safer than the illegal ones? Preventing potential harm to oneself/others is the basis for outlawing substances in the first place, right?

Please only answer my question, no ramblings on the topic in general.

Best answer:

Answer by tomusiaka
You should not assume that a substance is less harmful just because it’s legal. There are many legal drugs in pharmacy that are much more harmful to you than marijuana and some other drugs that are illegal. Also, glues and other chemicals that can make you high are legal but they are very harmful to your body.

People who want to make marijuana legal have other reasons, too. For example, there are couple countries where legalizing drugs made people use them less and safer, or that if someone wants to hurt himself, he will do it any other way using any other substance that is legal or just will buy an illegal drug from a drug dealer that potentially could be even more harmful because it is not regulated by the law.

People who don’t want to make marijuana legal believe that making it legal would make a lot of people use it and hurt themselves and others. Hurting others would include families (father got addicted and is not supporting his own family), other drivers (driving when “on high” can be life threatening), other poeple (accidental) and government’s budget (more accidents would mean more filled up hospitals and drug addicts usually can’t afford to pay their medical bills because they spend all their money on drugs).

There are other valid arguments on both sides though but the one you gave is actually not a valid one.

What do you think? Answer below!

Drug Treatment Court Provides Addicts Successful Rehabilitation
The mission of the program is to protect and improve the community by reducing repeat criminal activities related to substance abuse and addiction. It combines comprehensive treatment, rehabilitation and supervision for each participant. The successful … Read more on State Journal

Fighting the 'war on ice': Local courts focus on treatment for drug addicts
Pledge to be drug-free: B.P. Carbullido Elementary School students recite a pledge, administered by Superior Court of Guam Judge Anita Sukola, right, to be drug-free during an assembly at the school on Oct. 24. Joining Sukola onstage are Attorney … Read more on Pacific Daily News

INSPECT program helps track prescription drug abuse
(1/2)INSPECT program. FILE image (2/2)FILE image. Previous; Next. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – Dr. Ben Rachwal has been a pharmacist for 20 years and said he's seen the prescription drug addiction in our society get worse. "Opiate abuse and opiate … Read more on WLFI.com