I have recently received so many questions about the book that I thought I would spend an episode talking about it. Dr. Junkie: One Man's Story of Addiction and Crime that will Challenge Everything you Know about the War on Drugs is available on Amazon and Barnes & Nobel. This autobiographical account of addiction and crime in the United States reveals the design-flaws of the current War on Drugs, which has consistently failed to focus on the things citizens should want prioritized, like saving lives, reducing addiction and getting rid of dangerous street drugs. Instead, the we have spent trillions of dollars imprisoning our neighbors, killing our family-members and driving the price of these chemicals sky high. And if we have learned nothing else through the 120 years plus of this worthless war, it is that people will not be stopped from using drugs, no matter how dangerous, expensive or illegal they are.
Dr. Junkie is a story about how we can change our priorities and save lives. We are currently in the midst of the worst overdose crisis in contemporary history, and it can only be stopped with safe supply, therapy, support, treatment...in a word, love.
If we truly want people to stop, and to experience minimal damage from their use, we would legalize all drugs and, as a bonus, put all illegal drug dealers out of business overnight.
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