If a point is needed for the author's thesis, he might have the courtesy to prove it rather than send the reader off to yet another author, whose work may be troublesome to obtain. However, the contentions are readily disproved or shown to be irrelevant regardless of the arguments that appear elsewhere in their defense. It is my job, then, to show that this author has no case. Thus, I am really a creator primarily and a destroyer only secondarily and then only in a very minor capacity, as Mr. Tyrrell has not provided much of an edifice for the wrecking ball. I shall employ these statements as secondary titles.
Drugs kill and enthrall.
The impression that Mr. Tyrrell wishes to create is that drugs are lethal poison. If cocaine and heroin were lethal poisons, we would have no addicts since users would expire before they became addicted. While it is true that one can ingest enough of nearly anything, even if it recognized as an essential nutrient, e.g., vitamin , to cause death. Death comes, in most cases, when the substance ingested is not the substance expected or when the dosage is drastically different from the dosage expected. These are accidents that do not occur with legal drugs except in a few cases where the legal drug is much more dangerous than the common favorite illegal drugs most of which have been part of our culture for thousands of years and with which we have vast experience.