Like depression, addiction affects tens of millions of Americans. How best to treat it is a serious a question we need to explore. Rich or poor, young or old, addiction has no boundaries. But the drug war does. Our long war on drugs has stifled the open debate society should be having about the nature of addiction and how best to deal with it. It is time to treat addiction for what it is — a medical problem, not a criminal one.
Drug Addiction Is An Illness Not A Crime
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