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  1. Bravo, Lieutenant Murray. You are pitch perfect in your views and actions.

    The United States has had a long-standing romance with 2 approaches to substance use disorders (SUDs): Control and Consequences.
    Consequences range from hortatory pronouncements, to burned bridges by family and partners, to incarceration in jails and prisons.
    Control means controlling access to a substance of abuse. Prohibition, the war on drugs, border interdiction, crop burning and buy and are but a few of the methods used for controlling user access to drugs.
    Consequences range from hortatory pronouncements, to burned bridges by family and partners, to incarceration in jails and prisons.
    The one thing these varied methods have in common is that they do not work! They never have.

    Welcome to the world of public health.
    Lloyd I Sederer, MD, Adjunct Professor, Columbia/Mailman School of Public Health.

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