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by truculation 3002 days ago
Do you mean to imply that religious faith offers a way out of addiction or that (for example) the Book of Job is really really interesting?
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I think it's sarcasm pointing out how detached from practicality some of the comments here seem and/or how terrible teen mass-intervention programs are in general.

I don't remember the finer details of anti-drug propaganda from school that well anymore, but I do remember my anger at how patronizing, insulting and obviously ineffective most of it was. And how it often used the exact same manipulation tactics that DARE told us drug-pushers would try to use on us. Why, when people grow up, do they not remember the well intentioned but misguided intervention programs they were subject to in their own youth?

Yes, it was sarcasm. Either way it's interesting I got flagged for that.