Restorative justice focuses on repairing injustice. Drug abuse generates injustice in important ways. Restorative justice’s healing process might aid drug treatment because it can deliver the love and caring to motivate holistic change in a life. Case studies illustrate both how a restorative justice approach to drug abuse can be a catalyst for the confrontation of a profound community injustice and how confronting injustice can help tackle drug abuse. Most restorative justice programs currently fail to achieve either of these dynamics and ignore drug abuse. The criminalization of the harm caused by drug abuse through drug-related crime may be an effective way of reducing drug abuse when it prompts the use of well-designed processes of restorative justice. Future research and development should test this hypothesis. (Author abstract modified)