Then dying of alcoholism. If we would trade the political utility of the drug war to save those alcoholics we could have both, doing away with the whole bunch of other bad things in the bargain. But that's not going to happen so we will just have to take that risk.
At the very least for suicide there are guardrails in place and it takes a little bit of effort to get past them in most chat bots.
And the problem isn't whether there are therapists or not the problem is the therapists are still committing a crime. So if you have a job you often won't be able to take the risk of going to see one.
The man in this article wouldn't give out his name for exactly that reason.
It is extremely fucked up that we force people into high risk situations for political reasons. And it is political reasons. As long as you don't abandon drug users and you provide them with the necessary services legalizing drugs is a far better solution than just tossing people in prison.
Although without nonviolent drug offenders who's going to pick vegetables and take orders in Alabama McDonald's ?