The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62016   Message #999967
Posted By: Amos
10-Aug-03 - 08:49 PM
Thread Name: Drugs menace ..Are we to blame?
Subject: RE: Drugs menace ..Are we to blame?
Ake,

Sorry it was not clear, but I really wasn't being sarcastic. Any individual can take on responsibility for the condition things are in. The way your question was posed it seemed you were asking whether individuals in the community should be blamed.

I think it would be a wonderful idea for someone or a small group to find some workable method or way of communicating or educating or detoxing other intervention that would effect a successful prevention or salvage for a small number of people from drug abuse; it could then become a grass roots methodology that circulated and grew by reason of its success. But the thing is these interventions are too often based on some sort of "should-y" prescriptive moralistic grounds, which of course prevents them from communicating very well wiith those who really most need to be reached.

A