Drug czar approaches challenge from a different angle: As a recovering alcoholic

Posted on AllSides August 26th, 2014
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America’s top drug control official had a confession.

Michael Botticelli was seated on a tattered purple couch in an old Victorian here, just outside of Boston. Above his head was a photo of Al Pacino as a drug kingpin in “Scarface,” and gathered around was a group of addicts who live together in the house for help and support. On one door hangs a black mailbox labeled “urine,” where residents must drop samples for drug tests. Botticelli is listening to their stories of addiction and then offered this:

“I have...

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