March of Folly: Harvard's Dr. John Kelly on the War on Drugs and the Way Forward
For over 50 years, America’s “war on drugs” has been a war with unintended consequences. Framed as a battle to be won, it reshaped addiction not as a public health crisis but as a moral and criminal one. This rhetoric didn’t just stigmatize millions — it fundamentally altered the course of treatment and recovery for decades.We sit down with Dr. John F. Kelly, Harvard Medical School’s first endowed professor in addiction medicine and Director of the Recovery Research Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Kelly takes us deep into how the language of war derailed our response to…
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