Checking Up on a Woman Who Made a Big Difference
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The News & Advance
Published: August 29, 2008
Thumbs up to Danielle Copeland, a public defender in Lynchburg, who’s intent on helping addicts overcome their demons.
In her job, she sees firsthand the relationship between addiction and crime. So when the Arise treatment in Forest closed earlier this year after funding cuts, she realized she had to do something.
“Something” turned out be a forum last week in downtown Lynchburg, bringing together a wide range of interested parties who know the need for such a program.
As a result, some of the region’s major players in business and social services are on the case. Thanks to Danielle Copeland.
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Posted by ( Cosmo Wafflefoot ) on September 01, 2008 at 4:30 am
The idea of “overcoming demons” fits the metaphorical mind set of Lynchburg very well. What, if anything, it has to do with so called drug addiction is quite another matter. I would suggest the members of this forum, and any other interested parties, read “Romancing Opiates” (Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy) by Theodore Dalrymple. Addicts are not passive, they are not diseased; but they have managed with the help of people like Danielle Copeland, to seduce a vast treatment bureaucracy into regarding them as medical victims. “Man is the only creature capable of self-destruction, and only man decides in full consciousness to do what is bad, even fatal, for him.“ This is a moral problem. Treating addiction and crime as if they were a disease is a total waste of time and money.
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