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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why has the War on Drugs been so terribly ineffective? It seems to have led to an increase, not decrease, in the drug problem.
gpt
One point not addressed yet is addiction. Addiction is a medical issue. Throwing drug addicts in prison is as mindless and stupid as throwing alcoholics in prison. Addiction is not solved by incarcerating people. Incarceration destroys people's ability to make a living and cuts them off from their families. All of that is directly counter-productive to treating addiction. It's of little surprise then that this strategy of criminalizing addicts has resulted in more addiction. 

Addiction is solved by social integration and psychological treatment, along with medical treatment.