Issue Position: Addiction and Treatment

Issue Position

We all agree that Opioid addiction has reached crisis proportions. But it is not enough to just throw money at the problem. Addiction is a disease and must be treated that way. We must make treatment and recovery options available to people who need them. If a near death experience is not enough to make a person want to do the hard work to recover then mandatory confinement will not help either. Penalties for drug dealers may sound nice but it has nothing to do with recovery which is where we must focus our efforts.

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