Originally Posted by
JeeperTim
Drug addiction is NOT a disease. It is a behavior. Those who have it chose to expose themselves to it at some point in life. They bear some responsibility for it.
A disease gets the innocent and guilty alike.
True enough. What I meant (and I apologize for my poor wording) is that addiction is better treated as a medical or psychological problem rather than a criminal issue. Alcoholics get to go to AA meetings not jail and their drug of choice destroys far more lives than all illegal drugs combined. Safe injection sites aren’t meant as a place where addicts can continually go to get high they are intended as a first step toward treatment. A liquor store is a place where you can continually go to get high.