Just Say No to this ‘radical rethink’ on drugs / sp!ked, 12 March 2007
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2951/
Michael Fitzpatrick
" The latest review of the drug problem peddles dangerous myths about helpless addicts, and suggests making the state drugdealer-in-chief.
...The first myth is the notion that addiction is the result of an unfortunate accident: one minute the hapless victim is swimming happily in the pond of life and the next is impaled by the hook of the malign substance.
...The second great myth is that withdrawal from drugs is a deeply traumatic process – like removing a barbed hook from your mouth.
...A third myth is that once the victim is ensnared on the hook, addiction immediately becomes a chronic disease requiring medical treatment – in the forms of diverse regimes of detoxification and rehabilitation."