What changed you from basically being an "enforcement person" to a "treatment person?"

It's very hard not to change your vision if you stay in the field long enough.

If you look over the sweep of time, what changed for me from 1980 until about 1990, and continuing today, is that the price of drugs has just plummeted in this country. Worldwide production of opium has more than tripled, and cocaine has geometrically expanded. Both the quality, the purity of the drug, is much higher, and is so much more dangerous now to people who use it in this country. And it's so cheap that even a high school kid could buy a hit of heroin for his weekend enjoyment.

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