Spot on. Addiction causes fundamental changes in the brain. Helping addicts is a complex process well beyond fining or imprisoning them. The goal is to reve

Spot on. Addiction causes fundamental changes in the brain. Helping addicts is a complex process well beyond fining or imprisoning them. The goal is to reverse the addiction. It doesn't happen by punishing an addict. This is a useful paper: "Imaging the Addicted Human Brain", http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851068/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851068/