Reply #53: I took librium while in detox

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Anabuse in not terribly effective (though it is still the best drug we have) due to the fact that serious alcoholics will drink anyhow (in late stages we are sick much of the time anyway) and thus only fairly well motivated people actually derive benefit from it. The only time I considered taking it was at a friends wedding when I was around 3 months sober. Instread I drove myself there and left the reception for a meeting and then came back. Had I still had health insurance I probably would have taken the easy way out.

But as to the central point. There are a body of homeless who are that way due to being seriously mentally ill and refusing to take their meds. These people do much better when they are on them and then when they are let go they don't take the meds and fall back into their old homeless patterns. It seems to me there are only two humane things to do here. One, put them in institutions and take away all their freedom or two, make them take their meds via governmental force. Two seems the better choice.