Excargodog

Much like our handling of COVID-19, a lot of hardened opinion and dogma on both sides with a decided lack of objective research data, and an increasing attitude of ‘no sparrow shall fall’ in a world of uncertainty.

The same federal government that not only approved OxyContin for overuse, but bought in to and then supported the idea - from one questionable study - that physicians were under using opiates for chronic pain still hasn’t faced up to its responsibility in the opiate debacle whose overdoses killed 93,000 Americans last year.

A federal bureaucracy that helped start the opiate epidemic ( and approved fentanyl lollipops for God’s sake)



believes it is similarly all-knowing when it comes to the subject of alcohol abuse. The fact is they are probably correct, they know as little about one as they did about the other, because most social sciences are and always have been pretty devoid of science.

So in the absence of good science (and psychology/psychiatry has never involved very good science), you get the theory du jour of the current bureaucrat farmed out to whatever independent contractor will take the job - sort of exactly how we got the opiate addiction epidemic in this country.

It is apparent from their recent directives that the current bureaucrats in charge believe and are acting upon the theory that one DUI or any degree of drinking of concern to anyone who knows you justifies lifetime monitoring, and no matter how expensive, intrusive, unnecessary, unproven, or ineffective the program may be, they are absolutely convinced that they know best so just $TFU, go to your meetings, and stop complaining.