Addiction Quote by John Fetterman

“We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not incarceration. Decades later,…

— Dominique DuBois Gilliard

We're already going down that path with illegal drug use and incarceration. I can't imagine it getting any worse.

— Greg Gutfeld

Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and…

— Milton Friedman

It is unacceptable that the way we have treated people who have become addicted in the past is by throwing them in prison. It's…

— Perri Peltz

I believe it is possible to bring an end to mass incarceration and birth a new moral consensus about how we ought to be…

— Michelle Alexander

Unless we address those that are leaving prisons, we can't begin to repair the damage of mass incarceration and make our communities whole and…

— Susan Burton

Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our police and…

— Milton Friedman

If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation,…

— Milton Friedman

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail…

— Ralph Nader

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.

— Russell Brand

Drug addiction is tearing our communities and our country apart, and until we decide we're going to think differently about it, until we decide…

— Vivek Murthy

We need to take a hard look at the war on drugs and the number of non-violent offenders who end up getting their lives…

— Bernie Sanders