Drugs Criminalizing drug offenders is often racist and unethical status quo rehab – decisions are disproportionate Collins-Chobanian 09 Shari, phd in philosophy, prof @ of Paul Butler's Race-Based Jury Nullification ASU, “Analysis and His Call to Black Jurors and the African American Journal of Back Studies Community” 39.4, 2009, [, , ] Addicts are often attempting to medicate their psychological pain, and there is a in fact, significant correlation, a comorbidity, between psychological disturbances such as attention deficit disorder, bipolarity, depression, anxiety, and (illegal) attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) disorder, drug use. For example, studies have found that 52% of adults with ADHD abused drugs at some point in their lives, compared to 27% of control groups (see Biederman et al., 1995). Oftentimes, once addicts get clean, then the underlying psycho-logical disturbances can be In prison, addicts have access to drugs, and prisons are not equipped to act as successfully treated. drug rehabilitation centers. Imprisoning (nonviolent) addicts is doubly wrong; it is wrong because it is punishing a nonviolent person who is sick rather than giving her or him the necessary medical and psychological treatment, White privilege and and it is wrong berance soci-etal racial discrimination carry over into the justice system with a vengeance, resulting in obscene disparate impact. The face of those in rehabilitation is disproportionately White, and the face of those imprisoned for nonviolent drug abuse is disproportionately White. I find the drug war discriminatory in intent as As such, inconsistent with other public policy and laws, well as effect, and I am not troubled by the terminology Butler uses when refer-ring to nonviolent drug use as "victimless." I turn now to Leipold's critique.
Drugs Criminalizing drug offenders is often racist and unethical – status quo rehab decisions are disproportionate Collins-Chobanian 09 Shari, phd in philosophy, prof @ ASU, “Analysis of Paul Butler's Race-Based Jury Nullification and His Call to Black Jurors and the African American Community” Journal of Back Studies 39.4, 2009, [, , ] Addicts are often attempting to medicate their psychological pain, and in fact, there is a significant correlation, a comorbidity, between psychological disturbances such as attention deficit disorder, attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) disorder, bipolarity, depression, anxiety, and (illegal) drug use. For example, studies have found that 52% of adults with ADHD abused drugs at some point in their lives, compared to 27% of control groups (see Biederman et al., 1995). Oftentimes, once addicts get clean, then the underlying psycho-logical disturbances can be successfully treated. In prison, addicts have access to drugs, and prisons are not equipped to act as drug rehabilitation centers. Imprisoning (nonviolent) addicts is doubly wrong; it is wrong because it is punishing a nonviolent person who is sick rather than giving her or him the necessary medical and psychological treatment, and it is wrong berance soci-etal White privilege and racial discrimination carry over into the justice system with a vengeance, resulting in obscene disparate impact. The face of those in rehabilitation is disproportionately White, and the face of those imprisoned for nonviolent drug abuse is disproportionately As such, I find the drug war inconsistent with other public policy and laws, discriminatory in intent as well as effect, and I am not troubled by the terminology Butler uses when refer-ring to nonviolent drug use as "victimless." I turn now to Leipold's critique. White.
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