Death of a Generation: A Story from America's War on Drug Addicts.

This is one story from the millions of addicted people who have lived and died during "The War on Drugs" In 1967 the American Medical Association identified addiction as a "complex disease". So complex in fact that the exact cause of this disease wasn't mentioned at the time because they had no idea what that was. Addiction was declared to be a disease and then the research was done post hoc with that conclusion in mind. Seems an odd way to solve a problem, until you factor in the possibility that solving the problem wasn't really the goal to begin with. It was the disease model of addiction that enabled the development and distribution of all the maintenance drugs that have been designed and marketed to treat addiction. Doctors regularly prescribe an enormous quantity of these synthesized opiates daily. There is massive diversion of these drugs into the black market and the numbers of overdose deaths linked to maintenance drugs have steadily risen and continue to climb.