Very true. The recidivism rate is often mentioned but I know some people…situations…and was a buildings manager guy at a mental healthy facility and saw a lot of stuff.
Basically 100% of people who change their behaviors, habits, and associates get clean and stay that way. Most people quit, do detox, get straightened out, and keep doing what they’ve always done and they’re messed up within a few weeks to a few months later again. It’s sad as you say, but our world has evolved away from personal responsibility to a blaming/victim/illness culture that tells people they can’t change or aren’t ‘allowed’ to change.
While that’s a simplistic overview, I know, it is at its core the essential truth. I wouldn’t believe it myself but I know a surprising number of individuals who went from passed out under their car and starving, stealing, and screwed up every day to living cleaned up for 10 years, 25 years…
I think it’s a fixable cultural problem but “we” aren’t helping people fix it. Imho
and then we have this kind of bunk and “doctors” that claim people used to live to a biblical old age from doing cannabis with no scientific basis whatsoever, and claim cannabis does not cause this: