Mauro Fiorentini
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Well, now I'm shocked. I'll try to explain my feelings and excuse my poor English, I'll try to be as much schematic as possible.
- 1: people catch me at night? Because my parents fear I will run away? Then it's my parent's fault, they're obviously unable to control me. - 2: these Institutions are expensive: therefore, only riches can hope a way out of the drug? And what about poor families? They can die of Aids? (even if, IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, at least poor kids can sleep without problems). - 3: the use of force to correct kids? Drug addition is a DISEASE, more than a CRIME: would you treat this way a cigarette smoker? An alcoholic? A kleptomaniac? - 4: I haven't understand how Jamaica is involved here. Is it a last resort? Why? What happens there? (and on a side: if you need a "last resort", well then it's quite clear that what you're doing in these Institutions does not work so well).
If that kid was a problem because his therapy lasted 2 years, well then you should have tried to put ME in therapy instead. I wonder how many of these therapists would still have all their teeth. Sorry, I absolutely don't want to be controversial, but things have changed since the last century. Asylums have been closed and crazy guys now freely walk on the streets, and this did not lead to a crime growth. Drug addicteds are frail persons and while it's easy to overwhelm them with an organized force, it's surely hard job to gradually accompany them out of their disease. It's a lesson of humility.
If a kid has drug problems, you have to follow him because he's looking in the drug for something he's missing elsewhere. You can't force him to stop, you have to find something he loves more that drug. You can trust me, my cousin was a drug addicted, he spent his nights sleeping in niches and cemeteries. We spent YEARS helping him and he now has a respectable job at the shipyard. Mom worked at a lawyer's office and there were many cases of drug addictes. NONE of them have been forced to stop, but many choose to follow some rehabilitation, and 85% of them managed to stop using drugs. None of them had to be picked up at night using SS methods. Greetings, Mauro.
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