While reading Glenn Simpson’s Dec. 6 letter (”First, stop the deaths from drug poisoning“), I stopped to ponder one sentence, referring to drug addiction, that began, “As we all come to accept this disorder as a disease. …”

I keep hearing that. Back in my college days, my friends and I did lots of drugs, but we stayed away from addictive substances, such as heroin, because using them was stupid!

So, when I hear that addiction is “a disease,” I can only conclude that what people using this phrase really mean is that stupidity is a disease, although it’s still unclear how you catch it.

Perhaps solving the disease of stupidity is where the research should start.

John Nichols

Portland

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