Today’s lengthily editorial “Treat heroin as a disease, not as a moral failing” states:
“It is time to bring heroin from out of the shadows and treat it as the public health crisis that it is…
“We have treated heroin addiction as either a moral failing or a failure of will — a weakness of the undisciplined and the unwanted.
“Addiction is a disease.”
WATCHDOG: As we have often reported, the Lancaster Newspaper, Inc. for two decades has been a sound (albeiet lonely) voice in both reporting nd opining on the public health aspects of the misguided War on Drugs.
Three wags of the tail once again to the Steinman family’s foundation for its pioneering efforts and the newspapers.
