"a great deal of pathological drug use is driven by unmet social needs, by being alienated and having difficulty conne…"

"The real connection between drugs and violent crime lies in the profits to be made in the drug trade."

"When it comes to drugs, most people have beliefs that have no foundation in evidence."

"I grew up in the hood. And so, when we think about these communities that we care about, the communities that have be…"

"one of the things that shocked me when I first started to understand what was going on, when I discovered that 80 to …"

"Just like any other drug, most of the people who use these drugs do so without a problem."

"when we think about alcohol, about 10 percent of the people—10 to 15 percent of the people who use alcohol are addict…"

"the criteria, to me—the way we judge whether someone is an addict is whether or not they have disruptions in their ps…"

"when people overindulge, like every day multiple times a day, it’s going to disrupt some of your psychosocial functio…"

"empirical evidence is frequently ignored when drug policy is formulated."