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Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

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.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

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.

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.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.