I've heard a great clinical psychiatry lecture on addiction today and I thought to share some of the information with our SR community. These are two articles based on the work of Dr. Stuart Gitlow, who's the Elected President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. There are also several videos with him as speaker available online.
Three Strikes Law & Drug Addiction: What Does The Science Say?
I hope posting these are not against the rules on SR; of course if they are, mods please remove. I think they contain very interesting pieces of information.