I still think it's important that more is done to combat the drug epidemic - imprisoning everybody is clearly not the answer, but allowing the epidemic to get w

I still think it's important that more is done to combat the drug epidemic - imprisoning everybody is clearly not the answer, but allowing the epidemic to get worse isn't either. > And as the overdose crisis continues, it is ever more > apparent to a growing swath of the country that > threatening to jail drug users doesn’t reduce drug-related > death rates or help families struggling to save their > loved ones. Instead, it disproportionately hurts Black > communities. These drug infected communities still have serious problems, the Black community for example is far from out of the woods. Drug addiction needs to be recognized as a disease. Given how much the US has been willing to spend on their war on drugs, I think they could better spend this money giving free help. (Hell, it could even be the start to a free healthcare program.)