Addressing the drug addiction challenge
Addressing the drug addiction challenge
stop treating drug users as criminals
Stop Treating Drug Users As Criminals
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Introduction
Drug use is a problem the society faces in the modern day world and, so far, conventional methods to deal with the same appear futile. Governments across the world enact policies that seek out drug users and try, at times forcing them, to get into rehabilitation programs. In some cases, law enforcers arrest the addicts and take them to rehabilitation centers as the sentences for their crime. Drug abuse is, thence criminalized. Addiction specialist, Gabor Maté, questions the ability of the government “to rehabilitate large numbers of substance-dependent” (2013) individuals…………….
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