Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.
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Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.
I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.
Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.
Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.
People have the right to know the drugs they are taking will make them better instead of harming them.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health.
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.