The thing we want for all our kids is that they be connected with a learning community and that they have strong social and familial relationships. I….

Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids..

I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that the drug workers were telling me; in fa….

A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco - and I think a lot of what's ….

There's traditionally been two different ways of seeing addiction. Either it's a sin and you're a horrible bad person and you are just choosing to be….

Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in that part of the brain is designed b….

In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to….

When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have 2-3 mil….

Because addiction is a developmental problem, the developmental stage is important, things like employment are important, things like having a sense ….

I don't think there's a single child who's ever benefitted from being arrested for marijuana or for underage drinking; this does not solve the proble….

I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that..

Love is great and it does help a lot of people, but a lot of people do have things like depression or schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or other diso….

Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine..

The best outcomes that are seen for therapy intervention and for other psychological interventions is where the therapist really connects and the per….

Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The end….

Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most s….

Do we really want to base our 21st-century policy on what the colonialist preferred at a certain time in history, not at all based on health or what ….

I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner of the Bureau of Narco….

I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and they start to, as….

We have a system that was devised by racists to create racist ends..

Science could never get you to make alcohol and tobacco legal and marijuana illegal. Only racism can do that..