"Drug addiction is an illness" (Antonio Maria Costa, UNODC)

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Vienna), 12 March 2009 - On the sidelines of a high-level meeting to review anti-drug efforts over the last decade, UNODC chief Antonio Maria Costa says drug addiction is an illness that has to be dealt with "by doctors and not by policemen". UK Home Office Minister Alan Campbell and a former drug user comment on the reclassification of cannabis in the UK.

Commission on narcotic drugs website: 
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CND/index.html

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