addiction and use disorders, and the affected, who suffer as family members and friends of the afflicted, are stigmatized and subjected to brutal, lifelong discrimination” (8).
Such discrimination often stems from public attitudes and government policies with respect to drug addiction and rehabilitation. Individual personality, social conditions, and public policies combine to create adverse consequences from addiction, according to Moore, (Heymann et al. 2001, 20). For example, drug addicts often face such adverse consequences of their addiction as diminished health, reduced economic resourcefulness, and impaired social functioning. However, many drug addicts have trouble reintegrating into society after detoxification because of discrimination and misguided policies. For example, Moore notes that reduced economic resourcefulness does not occur solely because drug abuse makes people less able at their jobs, but also by the “fact that our public and private policies treat
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