Also, get someone with political power in the mental health professions to highly stigmatize drug users as party animals and lacking self-control so that they are further pushed away from legitimate help when they are treated as liars and manipulators by mental health clinicians. Include the idea that if anyone self-medicated due to a legitimate mental health condition after being pushed away from the health system by an overzealous provider that thought the person was merely seeking drugs, that provider was right all along!
The meth problem replaced the crack problem and is now an opiod problem.
“I think it’s time for us to find out who’s really behind all of this…”
pulls mask off opiod problem
“I knew it! It was untreated mental health/public healthcare issue all along!”
Maybe we could solve it by heavily criminalizing mental health crises and banning things like safe injection sites??
This guy politics 👍
Also, get someone with political power in the mental health professions to highly stigmatize drug users as party animals and lacking self-control so that they are further pushed away from legitimate help when they are treated as liars and manipulators by mental health clinicians. Include the idea that if anyone self-medicated due to a legitimate mental health condition after being pushed away from the health system by an overzealous provider that thought the person was merely seeking drugs, that provider was right all along!