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Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabled

Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabled


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Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights/protections as actual disabled people?


I saw a story on FOX news on how newport beach was enacting some ordinance to requiring drug treatment homes/sober homes to file for permits and they mentioned that in California that junkies are considered disabled.

I say hell no,junkies should not be considered disabled, willfully taking an addictive substance should not get you disabled status.Even if you are no longer a junky you still should not be considered disabled. If a employer does not want to hire someone with a drug habit or who has had a drug habit then that is the employer's business.junky
 
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Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

I'm open to the idea provided that the legal designation of "disabled" requires strict compliance with a detox program.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

No way, they can park in the non-handicapped spaces just like the rest of us.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

I have a particular loathing for junkies as I had a big health scare because of a needle one left on a beach. Junkies should not receive any benefits whatsoever except for lockdown in a rehab institution 1 time and 1 time only. If they go back to the junk, their benefit should be a jail and Bubba to keep them warm at night.

I hate junkies more than I hate fat people.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights/protections as actual disabled people?


I saw a story on FOX news on how newport beach was enacting some ordinance to requiring drug treatment homes/sober homes to file for permits and they mentioned that in California that junkies are considered disabled.

I say hell no,junkies should not be considered disabled, willfully taking an addictive substance should not get you disabled status.Even if you are no longer a junky you still should not be considered disabled. If a employer does not want to hire someone with a drug habit or who has had a drug habit then that is the employer's business.junky

No junkies should not be protected under any disability act and we risk enabling them and their addiction if we grant them such a label.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights/protections as actual disabled people?


I saw a story on FOX news on how newport beach was enacting some ordinance to requiring drug treatment homes/sober homes to file for permits and they mentioned that in California that junkies are considered disabled.

I say hell no,junkies should not be considered disabled, willfully taking an addictive substance should not get you disabled status.Even if you are no longer a junky you still should not be considered disabled. If a employer does not want to hire someone with a drug habit or who has had a drug habit then that is the employer's business.junky

I have a problem with people who are currently considered disabled.

We don't need anymore victims.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

Disabled infers that in some way you are not completely able to do things in the normal way and thus special treatment is necessary to assist you such as wheelchair ramps.

There is no disability in addiction. There's an unwillingness which is completely different.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

Disabled infers that in some way you are not completely able to do things in the normal way and thus special treatment is necessary to assist you such as wheelchair ramps.

There is no disability in addiction. There's an unwillingness which is completely different.

I think addiction is a little more complex than and unwillingness. However, that does not excuse the fact that the junkie did something to put themselves in the way of addiction to start with. **** a junkie.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

How would this even work in a practical sense? Instead of building ramps as entrances to the office, would companies have to remove any decor that could cause someone tripping balls to think the wall was trying to eat them?
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

How would this even work in a practical sense? Instead of building ramps as entrances to the office, would companies have to remove any decor that could cause someone tripping balls to think the wall was trying to eat them?

They wouldn't need to work. They could apply for disability ;)
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

They wouldn't need to work. They could apply for disability ;)

and we should give them a disability, a real one.....
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

A lot of people on dope get disability from social security,and that is just not right.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

No.
Allow their family, private groups, etc to help them.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

Well, if their drug habit's so bad that they can't work, it's either put them on Disability or execute them. We can't have them dying in the street.

I'm fully in support of rehab... but rehab programs ain't free, and about the only way most junkies can afford it is Medicare. How do you qualify for Medicare? You collect Social Security.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

Quick question. Are you using junkie as a term for all drug users? Or just the ones on hard drugs like meth, crack &/or heroin? In any case I don't think people addicted to hard drugs should get disability. What would that even accomplish anyways? Most 'junkies'. Real junkies. Are so far removed from any society involvement that doesn't involve drugs that this wouldn't do much. In my experience overwhelming majority of crack addicts live in the streets and are invisible on the grid for the most part. So what would this accomplish?
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

How would this even work in a practical sense? Instead of building ramps as entrances to the office, would companies have to remove any decor that could cause someone tripping balls to think the wall was trying to eat them?

This seems detailed enough to come from personal experience.


Are we blaming the substance which a junkie is using, or the fact that the junkie is a junkie; intentions behind, reasoning, etc

I think it is a matter of substance, and should be dealt with as such. I'll admit, I love my caffeine, and I could consider myself a caffeine junkie. But nobody is going to put me down for it.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

I hate to break it to you guys but lots of federal programs already consider addicts disabled.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

Can't answer the poll because my answer is both yes and no.

While junkies may be considered to be disabled, nobody put a gun to their heads and made them take that first shot. My recommendation? Give them treatment, but give it to them in prison.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

What are we going to do? Put a thousand dollar disability check into a drug addicts bank account every month?

We need to figure out what makes someone kick the addiction. Europe has had success.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

We need to figure out what makes someone kick the addiction.

Ummm detox programs?
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

We need to figure out what makes someone kick the addiction.

Better, stronger drugs. Supercrack ftw.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

Absolutely...so long as "disabled" are given no rights the rest of us cannot enjoy, such as sucking down taxpayer dollars being spent on unconstitutional social engineering welfare programs.

My response isn't included in the poll options.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

Well, if their drug habit's so bad that they can't work, it's either put them on Disability or execute them. We can't have them dying in the street.

Why not?

It's their body, their choice, right?
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

I hate to break it to you guys but lots of federal programs already consider addicts disabled.

Those programs should be ended immediately.

We have a perpetual budget crisis in progress.
 
Re: Should junkies be considered disabled and afforded the same rights as real disabl

I think anyone who entertains the idea to consider junkies as apart of the actual disabled is a complete idiot. People are disabled because of some unfortunate event that happened in their lives. A junkie destroys his/her body willingly there shouldn't even be a comparison.
 
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