2. The medical profession fails to treat addicts properly.Um, Obesity.
Can you think of other situations in which the health care system abdicated responsibility for dealing with a health care issue that afflicts such a huge segment of the population? For far too long, those people who did seek treatment, often following a crisis, found no appropriate reception from the medical community.
And they still fail to treat either one appropriately. They actually make it worse.
Even if we try, we fail.
Thus your other seven reasons.
