"We are guilty," he said, of treating and feeding people some officials say they "want to kill".
Many buprenorphine doctors are addiction experts capable, they say, of treating far more than the federal limit of 100 patients.
Not only does this ignore the huge costs of collecting, cleaning, storing and distributing it, to say nothing of treating waste-water and sewage.
"How about having military focusing on hunting down and killing the bad guys," Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said, "instead of treating it as this crucible for social justice innovations.
Just last week, a lawyer for the players, Jeffrey Kessler, complained about the owners to the Washington Post, saying that "instead of treating the players like partners, they're treating them like plantation workers".
The Department of Health has said the cost of treating foreigners is at least £30m a year for the NHS in England alone, although practitioners have said the figure could be much higher.
The agency said the cost of treating obesity -- mostly in terms of diabetes and heart disease -- was an estimated 2.6 billion pounds a year.
That was followed not by a quote from his uncle about, say, the importance of treating people decently, but by the simple statement: "I'm an intelligent person".
Dr. Satcher said the issue of treating mental illness in children had been muddied by such debates as whether too many or too few children were being treated with drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Strangely, she said, the idea of treating women as whole humans had proved hard for some people to accept.
