Port: Harm reduction policies work for addicts and their communities

MINOT — To understand why harm reduction works, as a public policy, we must first consider what doesn't work.

Prohibition doesn't work. We tried it with alcohol, and it was one of the most spectacular failures of policy in our nation's history. The trillions our nation has expended on the "war on drugs" have accomplished very little, too, outside a worrisome expansion of the government's police powers that has grown to the point where the current occupant in the White House is claiming that his war powers (which have not been invoked by Congress in this instance) allow him to launch missile strikes on alleged drug traffickers in international waters.

Ironically, even as he orders military strikes of dubious legal justification against some drug traffickers, President Donald Trump has