Noel Pearson has an article in The Weekend Australian titled Agendas of Addiction (not available on line unfortunately) He is responding to a critic, Matt Gaughwin, who thought Pearson was being insensitive and cruel to ex AFL football star, Gary Ablett (senior), who suffers from drug addiction Pearson criticised Ablett because Ablett advocates a social theory of self medication as the main cause of addiction. Ablett argued that:… it’s time we realised that drugs are not the problem but a sy

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