What Charles Fain Lehman thinks about Addiction
Fellow at the Manhattan Institute working on crime, drugs and disorder, and author of the newsletter The Causal Fallacy. Writes in favour of enforcement and prohibition on empirical rather than moral grounds.
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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Charles Fain Lehman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingAfter two decades of the war on drugs, drugs were cheaper and more potent than when it began.
Their wordsAfter two decades of the War on Drugs, in other words, drugs were much cheaper and more potent than they were when the War on Drugs began.
↗What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut by the available evidence, the War on Drugs was far less successful at reducing use among the “hard core” of users, mostly meaning people addicted to their drug of choice.
↗What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece