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Record Store Tuesday: It's a reader's delight, with offerings from Gary Burton …
For instance, Burton's first city crash pad put him in the same building as piano great Bill Evans during a particularly (and literally) dark period in Evans' life when his drug addiction was so strong that his electricity was shut off. Their shared …
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Researchers Warn: War on Drugs is Failing
"With the recognition that efforts to reduce drug supply are unlikely to be successful, there is a clear need to scale up addiction treatment and other strategies that can effectively reduce drug-related harm." The report was published in the British …
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Study: 'War On Drugs' Failed To Limit Or Control Drugs
“In the USA, the average inflation-adjusted and purity-adjusted prices of heroin, cocaine and cannabis decreased by 81%, 80% and 86%, respectively, between 1990 and 2007, whereas average purity increased by 60%, 11% and 161%, respectively. … The …
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ACA could help addicts get clean
“It's the chance to clean up and not use anymore, so I could live a stable life,” said 30-year-old Ashley Lore of Portsmouth, Ohio, who was jailed and lost custody of her 4-year-old daughter as a result of her heroin addiction. “If I get into treatment …
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Russia’s war on drugs – FULL ARTICLE http://bit.ly/aju1dX There are tens of thousands of drug-related deaths in Russia each year. This year, Russia became the biggest consumer of he…

Question by JDH.: Are there any criticisms of the movie “Traffic”?
I don’t know how accurate or inaccurate the 2000 movie “Traffic” is. Does anyone personally have any criticism of the movie? Anything you thought misrepresented the truth? Anything that you know to be factually inaccurate? Anything you feel would be misleading to someone who didn’t know any better?

Best answer:

Answer by taximomuv3
It was a great movie – many good lessons can be learned from it.

Answer by short3gears
Yes!!! It was too short!

Actually, it is VERY real in a lot of respects as to the technical details of smuggling and the people involved in smuggling. I worked w/law enforcement in 92 in California (I was aircrew on a border guard AF c-130 for a while) and heard a lot of stories… Plus lived in LA… The politics (war on drugs) are RIGHT ON as well!    Read more...

Question by : End the war on drugs? The war against us?
We now have 2,000,000 people in jail/prison in the United States (number one in the world).

Around 40% are there for non-violent drug offenses and DWI.

Drug use since the war on drugs started has gone up, not down.

Contrast this to Portugual, where drugs were decrimnalized in 2001.

Their rate of drug usage went the opposite way – down.

The Netherlands has almost eradicated heroin addiction through it’s treatment-not prison drug policies.

Clearly, the answer to drug use is decrimalization.

Not prison, which has ruined many a man/woman’s life, whose only “crime” was against themselves.

Best answer:

Answer by Headless Horseman 2012
yes

Answer by America on Bush’s watch
The DEA and ATF are the closest things America has ever had to compare with Hitler’s Gestapo.

A Heroin Addiction Vaccine – A vaccine to treat heroin addiction may be on the horizon. The Doctors weigh in on this breakthrough in the war on drugs.