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Posted at 11:24am on Oct. 2, 2007 Recognizing Addiction as a Disease… Unless You Are a Conservative
By The Discovering Alcoholic
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) is a mover and a shaker when it comes to addiction and substance abuse in America. He has pushed hard for recovery programs aimed at providing prevention and treatment services for the nationwide methamphetamine scourge and is a co-sponsor of S. 1011: Recognizing Addiction as a Disease Act of 2007. I look for leaders like this, regardless of their political affiliation, but Senator Harkin no longer resides on my list of leaders in the field because Tom Harkin is also a hypocrite. All the things he has done right he threw away when he attacked Rush Limbaugh for having an addiction… a disease.
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