Physician: ‘That’s Inhumane’ if ‘We Treat Addiction Like a Crime’

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UNKNOWN FEMALE: "That is what we face and I remember that. I talked to her one time about doing what she wanted to do and set her up with an appointment but not until two weeks later and she went home that day and overdosed and came back and we tried to resuscitate her but couldn’t save her. I think about her all the time because she had come to us for treatment so many times and clearly there is a difference between how we treat her and how we treat everybody else because we need to recognize that addiction is a disease. If we treat addiction like a crime, we are doing something that is not scientific, inhumane and it's frankly ineffective." (Applause)