Society and the law need to stop demonising drug addicted people. Both the movies and the courts attribute addiction to failure of the person through weakness of character, or lack of values, whereas in fact they are people who suffer from a condition as others might suffer from any other health condition. Often the very reason they have taken drugs in the first place is oversensitivity to the world, not insensitivity to it. Everybody in the world has made poor choices. Lets not demonise people with health problems. For all you know there is a great person underneath that person with the addiction, just as there is underneath any other health condition. Support policies that address trauma and mental health. Support policies that support rehabilitation.