Christie on Addiction: ‘Every Life Is Precious, Every Life Is an Individual Gift from God’

Chris Christie Makes Emotional Plea To Rethink Drug Addiction Treatment (The Huffington Post)

While campaigning recently during happy hour at Shooter's Tavern here in this small New Hampshire community, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) related a pair of personal anecdotes to elucidate why he thinks the United States should change the way it handles drug addicts. 

After speaking in highly personal terms about his late mother's smoking addiction, Christie recounted an emotional story about a law school friend who became addicted to prescription painkillers.