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Essay / Addiction In Chasing The Scream - 1408
Once these individuals in rehab have served their time, the majority of them will not be looking directly at the next opportunity to get high, but at the next opportunity for a better future after being encouraged into rehabilitation to achieve something in life, compared to the attitude of a person coming out of prison. One story involved a man named Richard and his wife Marcia. She was an addict who was often imprisoned for it, but Anthony believed, like many others, that "addiction can be overcome with the right help." He thought the solution was to send her to a mental hospital [and] provide her with everything she needed – Xanax, morphine, to correct her chemical imbalance. Show him some respect. (114) » Give her job skills, so that once she was released, she would be able to succeed, but instead she continued to get "kicked down the ladder" by the criminal justice system. Imprisonment and torture of drug addicts is commonplace for people serving sentences for drug offenses, who are often not built to endure prison, let alone prison. “The Ministry of Justice estimates that 216,000 people are raped each year in these prisons. (That's the number of rapes, not the number of rapes – which is much higher.) (109) » This ultimately shows the simple fact that many people are not made to endure.