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@Gnomeshatecheese @Piss_Ant Friends of mine who’ve worked professionally with drug addicts tell me that their experience is that you have to stabilise the addict’s chaotic lifstyle first before you have any chance of weaning them off drugs.

I’ve got a lot of time for Boghossian’s grievance studies expose, but he’s wrong on this. He’s making the classic liberal intellectual mistake of thinking that drug addiction is a rationally chosen cost-benefit analysis about the lifestyle options open to a given individual. Addiction really, really doesn’t work like that. (Possibly he’s buying uncritically into the Alcoholics Anonymous rhetoric of “you have to hit rock bottom” and extending it to narcotics).