Or you can do the exact opposite: impose a swift death penalty on all addicts. China did this with its nasty opium problem. Opium smokers gave up the habit in no time at all. Incidentally Theodore Dalrymple (pen name of Anthony Daniels M.D.) has shown that opioid withdrawal is in most cases “trivial,” no worse than a nasty two- or three-day bout of flu. Of course there’s much more to addiction than the merely physical . . .
Good Lord!
You’ve got the human compassion of Slick Clinton, in heat, out back in the alley.
There are disgusting levels of humanity.