The 36-year-old film star, who was a former heroin addict, said addiction should be treated as a health issue rather than a criminal matter, reported Daily Mirror. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/apr/Russell.jpg" /> Russell Brand &quot;Addiction should be treated as an illness and society should recognise that addicts, with the proper help, can become active and useful members. &quot;Society should not &#39;discard people, write them off on methadone and leave them on the sidelines&#39;. Instead, society should neutralise the toxic social threat they pose as criminals,&quot; he said. Brand, who arrived to give evidence to the Commons home affairs select committee, has confirmed that he had been arrested around a dozen times for drug possession.

Comedian Russell Brand says he became addicted to drugs because of emotional and psychological difficulties.

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