Everywhere you look, the evidence is staring us in the face — our approach to addiction isn’t working. Yet governments keep doubling down on the same strategies: Supervised injection sites, free narcotics, and short-term harm reduction plans that do little to address the root causes. It’s as if we are afraid to say what’s obvious: Addiction requires treatment, structure, and accountability, not more enablers and political experiments.

A reader who works on the front lines of addiction recently wrote to me, sharing insights that hit harder than any policy document. She sees the problem daily — families falling apart, children born into trauma, and lives unraveling — while funding flows to organizations connected more by political ties than proven results. “This approach limits the effectiv

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