{"id":31,"date":"2015-06-24T05:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T05:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2016-05-29T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T14:48:08","slug":"why-we-do-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/why-we-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-1  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-color:#eae9e9;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:px;padding-right:px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-1 {\n                            padding-left: px !important;\n                            padding-right: px !important;\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">THERE IS NO FLAG LARGE ENOUGH TO COVER THE SHAME OF KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">~ <\/span><\/strong><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">Howard Zinn<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-one-full fusion-layout-column fusion-column-last fusion-spacing-yes\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:40px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper\" style=\"background:url(http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/russian-woman-dying.958.230.png) left top no-repeat ;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;border:3px solid #f7f7f7;\" data-bg-url=\"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/russian-woman-dying.958.230.png\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">Over the last century, society has realigned its moral compass to address social justice issues such as suffrage, civil rights, labor, the environment and homosexuality. Each movement has brought us closer to a more inclusive democracy where individual rights are recognized and honored and accepted in mainstream society<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">Once again, we stand at the crossroads of transformation and apathy. Transformation requires vision, passion, courage, commitment and endurance to succeed. The first step is to elevate awareness of the issue by providing the public and policy makers with a clear definition of the issues supported by empirical data and personal accounts detailing the disease process and recovery. Recent research in Neuroscience has proven that Addiction is a biopsychosocial disorder that often results in a chronic brain disease which should logically preclude the moralization and criminalization of perons with substance use disorders in the future. We at Chooper&#8217;s believe that the perception of addiction and the treatment of those afflicted has evolved into a critical human rights issue in many countries including the United States. The current archaic, prohibitionistic and often draconian policies rooted in moralism must be replaced with policies and practices that reflect humanistic values.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">We also believe that substance use\/abuse is a manifestation of a underlying systemic social disorder characterized by economic and racial inequality and the erosion of informal social institutions and communities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">We believe that the myth of mental illness and addiction was scribed over a century ago and that there exists a great divide between current bio-psycho-social knowledge and the language used today.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">We believe this archaic language impacts societal perception, perpetuates polarization and discrimination of the afflicted and violates human rights.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">We believe that the economic interests of corporate America influence, and in many cases, dictate healthcare and criminal justice policy and inhibit or preclude social change.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: georgia,palatino,serif;\">We believe that every human being\u00a0 has &#8220;unalienable Rights&#8221;to equal access to\u00a0quality\u00a0treatment and to recovery.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-fullwidth-2  fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth\" style=\"border-color:#eae9e9;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-style: solid;border-top-style: solid;padding-bottom:20px;padding-top:20px;padding-left:px;padding-right:px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">.fusion-fullwidth-2 {\n                            padding-left: px !important;\n                            padding-right: px !important;\n                        }<\/style><div class=\"fusion-row\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"margin-bottom:30px;\"><h1 class=\"title-heading-left\"><\/h1><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12314,"href":"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/12314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/choopersfoundation.org\/addiction-treatment-charity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}