Addiction is not a crime, nor a moral failure [NationalObserver.com]
These days, we as a society are talking and writing a lot about deaths related to addiction , and the drugs that fuel them . But we've been glacially slow to deal with this human tragedy because, I would suggest, of deep-seated, long-standing and widespread prejudice against addicts. Writers like physician Gabor Maté and British journalist Johan Hari have advanced cogent and essentially unassailable arguments for a better, more rational and humane – and effective – approach to drug...