President Trump has long argued that a US-Mexico border wall will bring an end to drug epidemics in the US. But it's clear thatthat proposal — and indiscriminately jailing those who use illicit drugs — aren't full solutions to the problem.
But Sam Quinones,author of Dreamland: The actual Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic, argues that focusing solely on treating addicts isn't an adequate solution either. He talks to Bob approximately the importance of tracing the supply of drugs into the United States, or how the line between dealers and addicts is more blurry than we might consider.
Source: thetakeaway.org