What Are Your Views on Addictive Illness?
Question by penelope: What are your views on addictive illness?
I am conducting a survey for a school assignment. Feel free to remain anonymous if you care to respond. Here are the questions I’d like to answered. Thank you in advance to those that participated.
1) Do you think addiction is a disease?
2) How do you feel about women who use drugs/alcohol while pregnant?
3) What do you think is the answer to the drug problem in the US?
4) When you think of a person with alcoholism / drug addiction, what do they look like? In other words, what is their general profile?
5) How do you think the drug problem in the US compares globally?
6) Do you think legalization would help or hinder the drug problem?
7) If drugs were legal, would to become a user?
8) What do you think is the cause of homelessness in the US?
9) What do you think would help reduce homelessness?
10) Do you feel uncomfortable using legal drugs around a recovering addict?
Best answer:
Answer by MJ
No. Not really
Women shouldn’t use drugs and alcohol while they are pregnant, it just shows you are immature and unfit to raise a child.
I dont know. Not from US.
They look quite unwell to me.
Again, not from US so I really don’t know.
No. I doubt it. Imagine people selling weed legally in super markets, everyone can have access to it and then get addicted to it too!
Nah. I don’t like anything that could harm my health in any way. So if drugs were to become legal, I would still avoid it.
Not proper government attention to the poor and the homeless.
There should be some kind of unqualified jobs available for such people to make a living.
I dont take any sort of drugs but if I did, I would have felt uncomfortable. Definitely.
Answer by J
Yes
There are court programs for just such instances, which monitor at-risk pregnant women
Treating substance abuse as a social, medical problem instead of as a moral problem
All walks of life
Possibly worse, but reflective of a global problem
Controlling the market would naturally help (having a wild black market is failing miserably)
No difference
Socioeconomic factors, mental illness, substance abuse
Affordable housing, community supports for needy
Yes, I would feel uncomfortable
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