Drug addiction in the United States

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There’s no justice in the war on drugs
By Milton Friedman, The New York Times, Sunday 11 January 1998. We have no right to use force, directly or indirectly, to prevent a fellow man from committing suicide, let alone from drinking alcohol or taking drugs. [Notable capitalist theorist here argues for an anarchist position].
Doctors want addicts cured, not jailed
By Steve Sternberg, USA Today, Wednesday 18 March 1998. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports that the public prefers jailing drug offenders to treating them. Incarceration reduces drug use only temporarily and at great expense. [Article presumes addiction is a biological rather than social disease.]
Northwest Heroin Use Is Epidemic
By Rene Sanchez, Washington Post, Monday 9 October 2000. No region in the country is having a deadlier struggle with heroin than the Pacific Northwest. The problem is not new, but all signs suggest that it has been getting worse, and is now an epidemic.
A New Round of White Denial: Drugs and Race in the ‘Burbs’
By Tim Wise, AlterNet, 14 August 2001. How long will suburban white America get away with expressing shock at the criminal proclivities of its progeny, without media exposing their presumption of incorruptibility as fallacious and patently racist?