Addicts are responsible for their own problems. Addiction is not a disease, it is a weakness. There is no need for alcohol or hard drugs and, of course, total abstinence is the only safe way.

Alcohol is the most dangerous drug because it is socially acceptable, and heavily advertised. The often heard ‘need for a stiff drink’ recognises the mood changing properties of the drug. There is no safe level of alcohol consumption. Nobody taking a drink for the first time knows whether or not he or she will be “social drinker” or what is called an alcoholic, a fancy word for an addict, as addicted to the stuff as any heroin addict. “Harm reduction” is ridiculous. Addictioncannot be managed.

Addictions cost the West billions, plus the unnecessary deaths of the addicts themselves and their victims (of crime and road fatalities).

Only addicts can deal with their problems. The ones who can't need to be isolated from society. They are just too dangerous to everyone else.