Question by JDA: Doctors/Med Professionals: Should illicit drug users get free medical treatment?
I want to know what the medical profession thinks. Please note, I’m from Australia (where there is universal healthcare)

I know many out in the community abuse illicit drugs because of life circumstances- they have mental issues, take heroin, wind up in prostitution to pay for it, then need the heroin to cope with the prostitution.
Or perhaps veterans who didn’t receive adequate psychological care have PTSD and then take illicit drugs to cope day to day.
Or even those whose chronic pain only responds to marijuana.

But I am talking about people who take party drugs, who willfully spend money to get “high”.

Then, some of them become violent (like on methamphetamine) or psychotic (from marijuana) or get severe ulcerative cystitis (from Ketamine).

Knowing the risks, including the potential for addiction to pretty much anything, should the public spend money treating these people? It isn’t like one can’t get information these days, the internet is easily accessible and finding information never easier. If I go out and smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, why should I expect a lung transplant before the person who got stabbed by a methamphetamine user and now has two collapsed lungs as a result?

Should there be a greater role of self-help and personal responsibility in society?

Best answer:

Answer by Maryann Kormoski
No its illegal why should they get special treatment?

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