In order for people to recover, we can't just say 'love is all we need.'.

Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help them find different areas of ….

The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science..

We absolutely should legalize marijuana..

A lot of the stuff that we say about drugs is just wrong..

There is a safe, nontoxic drug called naloxone that can instantly reverse opioid overdose and prevent most of these deaths. But the drug war interfer….

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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….