Drug misuse stems from a person's autonomy to choose

EDITOR—Robertson's critique of prison medical care of drug misusers would be valid if his fundamental proposition that drug misuse is a disease was held by all.1 If this were the case then clearly medical practitioners would have a duty both to prevent the disease and to mitigate its sequelae.

Drug misuse is not a disease in the sense of an unfortunate assault on one's health. …