Addiction is a sickness, and so is criminalising your child
Friday, March 20th, 2009In a new article written for The Guardian, Mark talks about the way in which society regards drug addiction and drug addicts: as a problem to be stigmatised rather than a sickness to be recognised and treated.
“As a crack and heroin addict who managed to stop using and then wrote about the experience, I get quite a few letters from the relatives of addicts, and they are all saying the same thing in different ways: how can I help my loved one to change?”
Read the full article at www.guardian.co.uk.