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stance abuse problem — it doesn’t matter if it’s alcohol, nicotine, heroin or cocaine — have a medical condition that is, in the great majority of cases, treatable. Those “junkies” who brought Ben’s . friend’s sister to the hospital were somebody’s friend’s kids too. There is still time to help them. War is not the answer.
Children born with Infant Alcohol Syndrome are retarded for life. A crack baby can be normal after two years of reasonable care. Why is the alcoholic woman sick, and the coke addict a criminal? My guess is that it’s because the alcohol dealers can make campaign contributions and the drug dealers can’t.
Measured in terms of the number of people in prison, there is little question that the Drugs War is a awesome success for law enforcement. We have the five percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of it’s prisoners - 80 percent are drug offenders. At the rate we are throwing people in
95.8%