Maggie that is a good question, and I will start by saying I don't have all the answers.
Drug use really isn't a problem, per se (in my opinion). the system that we were subjected to was based on a reactionary myth, and that was that any drug use was a one way street to death, insanity or jail. This is just false. I know adults who have smoked the occasional joint since they were 13, and they are successfull business people with sucessfull families. Some of these people even snort the occasional line. Let me say I am not one of them, but I certainly know plenty that fit that mold.
Drug abuse is problematic but usually goes away on its own as people mature and realize that it is causing them more problems than solutions.
Then there is the issue of addiction, which doesn't respond on any statistical level at all to treatment. Usually those that improve (before anyone snaps I said usually) do so because they were 'ready' and looking for something to focus their energy on, whether it was AA, scientology's treatment program or the seed. In this instance, the methodology seems to be almost irrelevant.
So my question is right back at you. If statistically 12 step programs don't work (and they don't), then why should we force people into treatment? Is it moral to lock a young kid up and subject them to methodology that is untested, considered torture if applied to adult prisoners...just on the odd chance that they may grow up an addict? Do you believe the seed was sucessfull (statistically, not individually)?
While you are answering, remember all our fallen seed graduates that died of drug overdoses and suicides. Why didn't it work for them? Also keep in mind the many many people who have logged on here with their stories of post seed pain and anguish.
Also understand that I support voluntary treatment, as long as full disclosure is made to the person volunteering to treatment the methodology and full contact with the family, as well as full right to change their mind and get up and leave without being tackled to the floor, restrained, denied the right to council or physcologically coerced.
It is when people are forced into treatment and mislead about the modality and their rights are violated that I take exception. This is the rule with children, not the exception when we are talking about drug rehabilitation. If someone walked into a treatment center and said "i Need help, and I don't care that the congress has indicated you use brainwashing methods, please just admit me", well then the seed indeed. But that wasn't the situation with the vast majority of the many thousands of kids that went thru treatment.
[ This Message was edited by: GregFL on 2006-05-02 10:18 ]