Complex sentence: Dalrymple also maintains that it is "the sheerest sentimentality to see drug addicts as the victims of an illness" and that, "sentimentality is now a mass phenomenon almost beyond criticism or even comment".
Split into simpler sentences: Dalrymple also maintains that it is "the sheerest sentimentality to see drug addicts as the victims of an illness". Dalrymple contends that, "sentimentality is now a mass phenomenon almost beyond criticism or even comment".