War On Drugs

What a New Trump Administration Could Mean for Addiction Treatment by Adi Jaffe Ph.D.

INCARCERATION FOR ADDICTS – Dec. 5, 2024 - Trump’s “Agenda 47” proposes an aggressive stance against drug trafficking and addiction, including measures such as naval embargoes on cartels and the death penalty f... Read More...

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“War on Cartels” and Harm Reduction in Peril

DELEGALIZE IT? – Nov. 14m 2024 - President-elect Donald Trump wants drug traffickers to be executed, and could soon have the authority to make that happen. “These cartels are animals. And that’s why Trump’s gonna tak... Read More...

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New Haven Students Make Film about War on Drugs

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES – July 6, 2024 - This spring, a group of New Haven students documented the episode’s impact on the neighborhood where some of them live and have family in a 45-minute film. “It destr... Read More...

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Arrests at North Carolina Methadone Clinic

DRUG WAR CONTINUES – May 21, 2024 - Probation Officer Carter was hot on Emma’s heels. Early on August 16, 2023, according to Onslow County Superior Court filings, he waited outside her house in Hubert, a... Read More...

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Oregon Lawmakers Ready to End Decriminalization ‘experiment’

VIDEO – WAR ON DRUG ADDICTS BACK ON – March 3, 2024 - “About four Oregonians a day are dying because of overdoses,” state Sen. Tim Knopp, a Republican and minority leader in the upper chamber, said” on Sunday. “The... Read More...

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Why the ‘War on Drugs’ Failed Addicts

VIDEO – PLANNED THAT WAY – Dec. 20, 2023 - What would our country look like today if we’d spent money on addiction treatment rather than punishment? We’re diving into the ‘War on Drugs,’ why it didn’t work, and what ... Read More...

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The War on Drugs Didn’t Work. How Do We Address Fentanyl Crisis?

GUESS WORK? – Sept. 28, 2023 - In other words, our colleagues want to fight the opioid crisis by continuing the same war on drugs — a war that for decades has destroyed the very communities it intended to help... Read More...

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US to Combat Opiates With Nuevo War on Drugs

VIDEO – WILL IT WORK? – Sept. 19, 2023 - Primary elements of the strategy include: Reducing the international supply of illicit opioids, reducing the supply of opioids in the United States, attacking the enab... Read More...

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Supervised Injection Sites Future of War on Drugs

FEED A SOUL - SAVE A LIFE – Sept. 4, 2023 - Since 2000, there have been over 700k drug overdose deaths in the U.S. The federal budget for drug control in 2023 was $42.5 billion but little progress has been made compa... Read More...

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The War on Drugs Has Failed! It’s Time to Decriminalize

AUDIO – NIXON WAS THE CRIMINAL – July 7, 2023 - Scottish ministers want to reform drug laws to enable people with drug problems to be better supported instead of being criminalized. They want to address record drug d... Read More...

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America Has Lost the War on Drugs!!!

NOW WHAT? – Feb. 22, 2023 - For a forgotten moment, at the very start of the United States’ half-century long war on drugs, public health was the weapon of choice. In the 1970s, when soldiers returning from Vietnam w... Read More...

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The Reality of the Taliban’s War On Drugs

IT’S NOT WORKING EITHER – Jan. 28, 2023 - The Taliban tried banning poppy cultivation in 2001, but it was found that Mullah Omar had purchased a huge quantity of opium from the market at a low price just before... Read More...

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What Comes Next for the War on Drugs?

IT WAS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY – Dec. 12, 2022 - The MAT Act would eliminate the special Drug Enforcement Administration waiver that doctors must apply for in order to prescribe buprenorphine (a medication tha... Read More...

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“Democracy Will Die” If We Don’t End Drug War!

VIDEO – ONLY SOLUTION TO REDUCE OVERDOSE DEATHS – Sept. 21, 2022 - In his speech before the UN’s General Assembly, Petro said definitively that the “War on Drugs has failed,” according to a translation. He adde... Read More...

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Police Repeating Drug War’s Dark History in Fentanyl Era

NO EFFECT ON OVERDOSE VICTIMS? – Sept. 20, 2022 - Facing an unprecedented public health crisis, law enforcement is under enormous pressure to demonstrate to the public that its efforts are making a difference. ... Read More...

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A Path to the Legal Regulation of All Drugs

SANITY AT LAST? – July 14, 2022 - Amid a century-long drug war in the United States, things are getting worse. Currently, over 100,000 annual deaths are attributed to “overdose,” most involving more than one... Read More...

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Will Overdose Deaths Force An End to the US ‘war on drugs’?

WHY WOULD IT? – Jan. 3, 2022 - “I revived a guy who OD’ed on the street this morning on my way to work,” says Pichardo, speaking matter of factly outside her workplace — Prevention Point — one of the largest n... Read More...

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50-Year War on Drugs Imprisoned Millions of Black Lives That Didn’t Matter

EXCEPT TO THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX – July 21, 2021 - Yet the loser is clear: Black and Latino Americans, their families and their communities. A key weapon was the imposition of mandatory minimums in pris... Read More...

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Biden Drug Policy Could Widen Racial Disparities, Civil Rights Groups Warn

LISTEN – DO ANY LIVES MATTER – Oct. 22, 2021 - In recent years, Cook said, about 70% of defendants charged with fentanyl-related crimes have been people of color. She said the new Biden plan will worsen those ... Read More...

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THE DOPE: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

MEDIA: BOOK REVIEW – August 24, 2021 - Just two weeks earlier, I had moved to Mexico to work as a foreign correspondent for this newspaper; my principal assignment: covering the upcoming North American Free Tr... Read More...

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Seattle Overdose Task Force Calls for Decriminalization of ALL DRUGS

THE ONLY WAY TO STOP DYING – Sept. 2, 2021 - With respect to psychedelics, the group’s one-page summary said that “municipalities, in the state of Washington and elsewhere, that have an independent ordinance crimi... Read More...

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Suits: The New Face of the Illegal Drug Trade

DRESSING UP THE DRUG TRADE – AUGUST 21, 2021 - Drug lords switching out gold chains for bespoke suits, politicians proposing to legalize cocaine and judges acquitting cocaine traffickers on compassionate g... Read More...

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The CIA Helped Export Opium From Afghanistan

WATCH – BIG PHARMA’S BIG PARTNER – Sept. 19, 2015 - In the same month, it was reported that opium production is stronger than ever in Afghanistan, which now produces 90 percent of the world’s supply of t... Read More...

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Maritza Perez Focuses on Downside of Criminalizing Drug Use

IT’S ALL DOWNSIDE – July 26, 2021 - “Targeted drug enforcement and over-policing in communities of color have led to severe consequences to Black and brown populations,” said Perez. “I’m not just talking... Read More...

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Philippine President Duterte Wants to Kill Drug Dealers

THE FINAL SOLUTION – July 27, 2021 - The killings have alarmed Western governments, U.N. rights experts, and human rights groups. Duterte has acknowledged that he failed to fulfill a campaign promise to eradicate th... Read More...

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The ‘war on drugs’ was always about race

WAS THE DRUG WAR ACTUALLY A SUCCESS? – July 21, 2021 - But where the “failed war on drugs” rhetoric goes from nonsensical to offensive is when Democrats speak as if the race disparity in drug-related arr... Read More...

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Deaths Related To Alcohol And Drugs Are SOARING In State Prisons

LISTEN – EVERYONE IS ON DEATH ROW – July 17, 2021 - JENKINS: Essentially treating one illicit drug with another - not the way doctors would have treated him, but Olivares-Pelayo credits his friends with ... Read More...

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Drug, alcohol, jail deaths puts spotlight on fallout from ‘war on drugs’

WATCH – ONLY POOR PEOPLE DIE IN WAR – July 4, 2021 - “The fact that we have criminalized some of these things and used punishment as a form of dealing with it goes along with the stigmatized idea that substance us... Read More...

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How Should We Do Drugs Now?

ONE DAY AT A TIME – July 9, 2021 - The blunt binaries of “Just say no” that have held sway for so long have kept us from having this conversation and from appreciating how different one illicit drug is from anothe... Read More...

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Driven by Drug Policy

THE BARBARIC DRUG LAWS OF AMERICA – July 8, 2021 - I have a million stories about my older brother, Billy, that exemplify the harms of the United States criminal justice system. I spent years trying to shepherd... Read More...

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