This process isn’t something we’re trying to hide. We’ve had this authority since before the Department of Homeland Security was created.

You’re putting poison in a person’s body, no matter how controlled. We would like to think there’s more hope for an alcoholic than to just give them measured amounts of alcohol.

We’re aware of the system. Obviously, we like to learn as much as we can about things, and when we hear people remark that they’re impressed by it, we’re going to pay attention. But we...

It is one form of harm reduction but to me it resigns everybody, including the addict, that since you have no hope of beating your addiction we’ll just feed it in a controlled environment.