We were sitting in the same room where Coffman and Bill Metcalf had mapped out Jones’s heroin ring. It was next to the kitchen, where a TRUMP–PENCE sticker was pasted on the refrigerator door. Not only did the detective have zero empathy for the addicted, but he also lacked any scientific understanding of the morphine molecule’s pull. Nor did some of my dear friends, longtime members of AA, who remain staunchly opposed to harm reduction and MAT for those working its twelve-step program. “There’s a reason why some people think NA and AA are cults,” said Mitchell, who used methadone,
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