This book will change the way you view " the war on drugs" and addiction in general. It is not a propaganda piece but rather a balanced attempt by the author to sift through the evidence on this contentious topic. It answered most of my questions and has radically changed the way i think we should be dealing with this problem. It is truely frightening how so much public policy has been based on so little factual basis. This is a great book and it will allow you to form your own opinion based on the evidence we have so far. To cap it all, it is well written and very interesting from the start although the description of some of the terrible lives people live, which makes up a lot of the start of the book, is tough going at times.
