Investments, costs, regulations, laws, courts and prisons– what helps? What’s useless or worse- harmful? What’s the cost to the taxpayer? And the economy? And the families? And, oh, yes… the people suffering from addictive disease?
Even today, the estimated cost for keeping someone under drug court supervision is in the range of $2500 to $4000 a year. Compare that to estimates of $20,000 to as high as $50,000 (in some expensive states), simply to maintain someone in a cell for the same period.
…newly appointed Drug Czar is Sara Carter, a 45 year-old investigative journalist best known for her reporting on the US-Mexico border, and her appearances as a contributor on the Fox News Network
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Apparently, some of the more level headed members of the medical community are already expressing concern about the possibility that, because of the aforementioned “national priorities”, psychedelics will avoid the usual scrutiny from experts.
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In the neverending hunt for financial rewards, poor consumer health can be viewed as collateral damage.
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I don’t see how any nation, let alone the United States, can hope to have real impact on the country’s drug problems without committing to a coordinated plan of action, and then sticking with it.
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…a substantial majority of electronic cigarettes sold in America are actually illegal
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…a former US Senator took the time to explain to me that framing certain problems as a war rather than, say, a public health issue, made it much easier to marshal public support and (hopefully) a lot of funding.
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I have little confidence in the ability (or willingness) of Internet companies to determine if a prospective purchaser is underage.
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Beginning around the year 2000, incarceration of juveniles has declined by almost 75%, from a peak population of more than 10o,000, to somewhere less than one-third that number.
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At present, the emphasis is on interdiction, the supply side. Meanwhile, we struggle with cuts in resources for treatment and prevention – the demand side.
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…plenty of Americans are involved as well, and presumably would continue their involvement in future, if they think they can get away with it.
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Lives are at stake. We can’t rely on hunches. We need facts.
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…Trump’s order also calls on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to defund addiction programs that include “harm reduction.”
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