As for the Center’s antidrug mission, yes, that was a success, too—but of course, I had never used drugs that much to begin with. What my experience at the Center primarily did was drill into me an unflinching attitude toward illness or weakness: Fight it. You can fight it, and you can win. To be weak is to fail; to let down your guard is to surrender; and to give up is to dismiss the power of your own will. The fundamental flaw in all of this, though, is that it neglects something intrinsic to the complex real world and to complex real human beings. In fact, it is not necessarily true that
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