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Apologise, would: Drug Addicts Should Be Treated As Criminals

Drug Addicts Should Be Treated As Criminals Video

Should Drug Addicts Be Treated as Criminals or Patients?

Shouldd cannot refine it. Our generations-long War on Drugs should be viewed through this prism. The damage wrought by this war is too great. We must come together as Mississippians and as a nation to discuss the way forward. The destruction of people that accompanies war is inevitably justified by appealing to the righteousness, or at least the utility, of the cause. In cases like the War on Drugs, where those arguments fail, the cruelty of war is thrown into even sharper relief.

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How did a cardiovascular surgeon become passionate about drug policy? A lifetime ago I was an excited young conservative Republican.

William F. Buckley, Jr. Richmond was a key city in the East Coast illegal drug trade, and I was faced with caring for many teenagers and men who sustained gunshots — often from each other, sometimes from police — as armed gangs fought over drug territories. Law enforcement officers were occasional casualties as well.

Opinion: Everyone benefits by ending our criminal approach to drug use. Picture a teenager, his arm nearly severed at the elbow by an AK round. If the picture is from a combat zone in Africa, how easily we react with pity for that child, press-ganged into a war not of his own making.

We make the cruelty of war bearable by creating psychological distance between ourselves and those we define as adversaries.

The current opioid crisis began in the late s as a surge in the use of prescription narcotic pain medication. My current career in heart surgery exposes me to a new group of war casualties: patients whose intravenous drug use has resulted in endocarditis — infection and destruction of one or more valves in the heart.]