Mr. Chairman, you are absolutely right. There is a natural progression from opiates to heroin.
You cannot arrest your way out of it.
I want to compliment you, Senator Portman, for the CARA Act, and, you, Senator Brown, for your work in support of it.
I think it is a critical step in the right direction.
There is too much stigma attached to addiction. And, it is a disease.
Overdose deaths have tripled from 99 to 2010.
I do not think it is getting better.
Whatever the punishment, it has to be appropriate and it has to fit.
I think that we have to be able to tell the differences between troubled youth, not bad youth but troubled youth.
I certainly wholeheartedly endorse your bill, and I hope you can get it passed.
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