They've got hepatitis, tuberculosis, and leg sores. I mean, they're the children of America. We've got to get them into treatment and link that effort to the criminal justice, welfare, and health care systems. If I'm addicted, my dearest wish is that I be allowed to continue my addictive behavior. You've got to grab me when I end up in one of those three places and engage me.
People use drugs for two broad reasons.
One group uses them because they need to feel better. Of course, the more you use illegal drugs, the worse your mental health problem becomes. The second group likes the effect of the drugs on the brain. There are 12 families of drugs that change the neurochemistry of the brain's reward pathway. We can take a picture of it in real time.