follow the money?

Q: Why is mental health and addictions not more important to the Canadian government?

A: Because addiction is a large, profitable industry that helps elect the people who run our governments.

When in doubt, follow the money.

There is an awful lot of money involved in keeping the addiction business alive more or less as it is, I’m afraid.

The 12-step programs and Old Rehabs represent the tip of the iceberg of all the addiction money floating around the addiction business.

Alphabet (Google, YouTube), Meta Platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), ByteDance (TikTok) and the rest of their ilk profit from social media addiction. Amazon (AWS) profits from addiction to everything electronic by tracking who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. The beverages industry profits from addiction by manufacturing and distributing liquor, beer and wine. Book publishers, seminar-givers and all sorts of pundits profit from addiction by telling all sorts of unsubstantiated stories online and in print. Big Pharma profits from addiction by manufacturing and distributing legal drugs. Churches profit from addiction by selling hope. Dealers profit from addiction by making drug deliveries and operating dope houses. Doctors profit from addiction by telling addicts to “just say no”. The drug cartels profit from addiction by manufacturing and distributing illegal drugs. Half-way houses profit from addiction by providing lodging to recovering addicts. Head shops profit from addiction by selling paraphernalia to addicts. Health insurance companies profit from addiction by selling health insurance to rich addicts. Hospitals profit from addiction by providing emergency room services and detoxification stays to addicts. Jails profit addiction by charging taxpayers for addict detainment. Lawyers profit from addiction by lawyering on behalf of addict clients. Mental health facilities profit from addiction by treating crazy addicts. NIDA.nih.gov profits from addiction by charging taxpayers $1,852,503,000.00 in 2022 for publishing gobbledygook. Police departments profit from addiction by charging taxpayers to arrest addicts. Prisons profit from addiction by selling addicts’ work product produced at slave or no wages at competitive prices and pocketing the difference. Psychiatrists profit from addiction prescribing Big Pharma’s legal drugs to addicts. Sober-living houses profit from addiction by providing lodging to recovering addicts. Therapists profit from addiction by providing addiction therapy to addicts–recovering and otherwise. Video game creators cause addiction to their video games in order to earn a profit from addiction to their video games.

AND THAT’S THE TRUTH


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