#DiedSuddenly

The Washington Post has a story by longtime liberal columnist Courtland Milloy that displays pretty much everything that’s wrong with the soft-on-crime approach to our epidemic of drug overdose deaths.

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Look, I understand the impulse to want to give people a second chance. What I don’t understand is indulging that impulse without ever asking, “Second chance to do what?” This would be true in any event, but is overwhelmingly true when we know that the recidivism rate for drug offenders is over three-quarters.

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