I'm the child of an addict. It really depends on how you measure cost - the current regime of punishing it, or treating it as a character weakness is clearly n

I'm the child of an addict. It really depends on how you measure cost - the current regime of punishing it, or treating it as a character weakness is clearly not working - plus moving sustained addiction outside of a care network to the black market, also clearly isn't working either. Everything we do has a cost to the community, the question is, since we know we can't eliminate the cost, how can we reduce it?