“My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I would treat it accordingly. What little I know about the history of drug control policy in the United States leaves me thinking that a hugely important moment came when the lawyers win out over the doctors on this matter.” ThinkingImportantBookMomentsProblemWinningPrayerPolicyDrugAddictionLawyerMedicalLeaving Me Author:Glenn Loury
“We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness. So to what I want to say is the very real problem of the human susceptibility to addiction isn't best dealt with by building prisons and throwing people into jails.” PeopleRealProblemBuildingProveSolutionsPrisonAddictionAlcoholDrunkenness Author:Glenn Loury