We all want the same things in the end, don't we

摘要

Chairing the debate last September in Glasgow between Stanton Peele and Neil McKeganey was refreshing in many ways, but most of all in two interlinked aspects; first, the explicit acknowledgement of the role of values in drug policy; and second, that this means the distinction between harm reduction and abstinence-oriented approaches can neither be eliminated by good intentions nor resolved by evidence; it is a matter of values - what matters most to the person making those judgements.