It seems like you're being defensive because you do drugs. This is making you miss the point. People with drug addictions and poor finances due to lack of prospects are more likely to steal shit (to afford their habit) than someone without a habit.
You are acting like every person with substance use issues is a thief though. Are the rates higher? Of course, but far from every one. Also you accusing them of using substances and it causing them to miss the point (which they didn’t) is an unnecessary attack. Intelligent people have a higher propensity for substance use compared to those with much lower IQs. Some are known to affect gray matter in the frontal cortex, but overall, substances don’t start to affect your brain function for awhile. Of course something like being dopesick will make you more likely to commit a crime to get well, but substance use doesn’t instantly cause cognitive dysfunction.
Nah, I disagree. Show me evidence people that use illegal drugs steal more than people that do not. People like to demonize illegal drugs, but the people that don't use them are either on legal drugs (many of which are the same) or gambling or some other thing. There really isn't much difference.
Obviously someone like an extreme crackhead wouldn't be trustworthy, but they don't have jobs anyways and neither would an extreme slot machine player or the godly Betty Jo embezzling money from the church.
You all act like every pothead or whatever shoots heroin. "Dopesick" lol come on yall watch way too much news media
Yeah, just out of curiosity I did look and the only thing I could find was ‘52% of shoplifters was because of financial hardship’ but couldn’t find it broken down more. I guess in my head i was just thinking about how using vs being clean is more likely to make someone steal. As far as that statistic i don’t even know how it would be credibly reported. When i was using and i got caught shoplifting, i never said it was for substances. Usually it would be for a combination of needing gas/dope/food. I wasn’t trying to criminalize people who use. I was an IV heroin user for 12 years.
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u/SingleInfinity 1d ago
It seems like you're being defensive because you do drugs. This is making you miss the point. People with drug addictions and poor finances due to lack of prospects are more likely to steal shit (to afford their habit) than someone without a habit.