Myths about heroin addiction

This one is simply wonderful. Read the first two or three paragraphs if you are short of time. One-line summary: bureaucracies usually perpetuate the problems they set out to solve. Well, there's a good deal more, and all of it good, talking about how people really become addicted and why they really stay that way (summary: they have nothing better to do or to be), but the beginning is the most widely applicable part. If I were writing the article, I might risk my skin by pointing out that the same applies to many other organisations who claim to be fighting one kind of evil or another.

I've found a fair amount of good stuff elsewhere in TheAustralian especially in the Books section.