Following on what you're saying, we need to have all of the options open for people. If I was a person struggling with drugs, we don't know where I would be today or in 10 years. It's not a death sentence, but it has been demonstrated that treatments based on not using any substance—so-called “abstinence-based” treatments—have a success rate of only 5%.
Just holding the bandera—sorry for the Spanglish—of “that's what we have to do” is not good for people because there is no one treatment that we need to proclaim. We need to proclaim all of them because people are going to be in different places at different times.
We need to proclaim a young person maybe wanting to be on that path. Another person might be ready to start out with others. For another person, the only thing they might want is injectables. For another person, it has to be evidence-based.
If you lie and say that it is proven that this didn't work and you have authority and the floor and you just said that because you saw it in the news, you create panic and fear for the people who have children, for the people who don't read. You then get an entire community saying that this doesn't work. Abuse of power is not a good thing.