Solving substance misuse and addiction with imprisonment and violence

The text states that the United States imprisons “more people for drug offenses than Western European nations’ imprisonments for all crimes combined.” (Hari, 2015, p. 109). Hari (2015) later quotes Anslinger as stating substance misusers “were criminals first and addicts afterwards.” (p. 141) Finally, Hari (2015) describes a prison psychologist stating that many of the […]

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