Time: Make the Next Drug Czar a Doctor

In an excellent article on Time, David Sheff describes the failure of the drug war, the Obama Administration’s short-comings and the chance to shift the way our country deals with drug use by choosing a health-oriented drug czar.

Whoever is chosen, the new drug czar must be devoted to ending the failed war on drugs and declaring a new one. America’s war on cancer has lowered deaths from the disease every year since it was launched. The new ONDCP head will be in a position to wage the right war, not against drugs, but against the disease of addiction.