maia szalavitz, can you respond? >> absolutely.he racism in the drug war goes even further back than that. it's hard to 1914 with the harrison narcotics act. at that time, there were literally headlines in "the new york times" about cocaine fiends who were causing problems in the south and the idea was that cocaine made them impervious to bullets. so the drug war has always not been about fighting drugs because if we actually wanted to deal with addiction problems, we would see it as a health issue and we would not be trying to focus relentlessly on supply. "unbroken new book brain: a revolutionary new way , of understanding addiction," could you talk about the long-running problem of addiction? >> addiction involves learning. what i am saying, we have been looking at it all wrong throughout the course of our drug policy, largely because of race. you cannot become addicted without learning because if you don't know what fixes you, you cannot crave it and you cannot seek it compululsively. we have misunderstood what goes wrong in ad