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...Addiction RecoveryArticles of InterestBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryTraumaWar On Drugs
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...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDec 20 2022Drug Abuse and Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryTraumaWar On Drugs
“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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoverySept 27 2022War On Drugs
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...Big PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionfentanylinterventionRecoverySept 27 2022War On Drugs
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...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 19 2022opioid crisisopioidsOverdoseoxycontinRecoveryWar On Drugs
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJan 11 2022RecoveryRehabWar On Drugs
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and Addictionlife expectancyMental HealthOct 26 2021RecoveryWar On Drugs
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...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionAlcoholics AnonymousBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMental HealthOct 26 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabWar On Drugs
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...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionSept 21 2021War On Drugs
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionOverdosePsychedelicsRecoverySept 14 2021War On Drugs
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...August 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin Addictionopioid crisisopioidsOverdoseWar On Drugs
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...Addiction RecoveryAugust 24 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin Addictioninterventionopioid crisisOverdoseWar On Drugs
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...Addiction RecoveryAugust 3 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryWar On Drugs
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...Addiction RecoveryAugust 3 2021Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionRecoveryRecovery AdvocateWar On Drugs
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...Books, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 27 2021RecoveryWar On Drugs
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...Addiction RecoveryAlcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 20 2021OverdoseRecoveryRehabTraumaWar On Drugs
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 13 2021RecoveryTraumaWar On Drugs
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJuly 13 2021PsychedelicsRecoveryWar On Drugs
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...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 13 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabWar On Drugs
The War on Drugs Comes to the Doctor’s Office IT’S COMPLICATED – June 30, 2021 - On November 21, 2017, Ashley was at Joshi’s office for a telehealth therapy appointment with her psychologist when Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents arrived with a s... Read More...Addiction RecoverybuprenorphineDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJuly 6 2021RecoveryWar On Drugs
The War Within Drug Treatment JUST STAY ALIVE – June 23, 2021 - Now, some are embracing a new approach to treatment – harnessing the power of harm reduction and a new view of relapse – to provide effective, responsive treatment with the goa... Read More...12 Step ProgramAddiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 29 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateRehabWar On Drugs
Overdose Deaths Skyrocket During The War On Drugs SANITY IN SHORT SUPPLY – June 19, 2021 -Under the drug war model that has shaped the country’s response to drug addiction since the 1970s, people who use illegal drugs are often treated as criminals.&nbs... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 22 2021OverdoseRecoveryWar On Drugs
He Almost Lost Everything. Then An Arrest Changed His Life LISTEN – STRANGE MIRACLE – June 19, 2021 - He found enough temporary work to pay rent on a room, ate at soup kitchens, and stole and resold goods for cash. “Feeding that addiction,” he says. “Feeding that mo... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionHeroin AddictioninterventionJune 22 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehabWar On Drugs
How TV Shaped Perceptions Of The War On Drugs LISTEN – LIFE IMITATES ART IMITATES LIFE – June 18, 2021 - David Simon created two of TV’s most groundbreaking series about the failure of the war on drugs, set in the neighborhoods of Baltimore: HBO’s T... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 22 2021RecoveryWar On Drugs
The 50 Years War LISTEN – PRAY THE SHOOTING STOPS - NO WINNERS EXCEPT PRISONS – June 17, 2021 - In many parts of the U.S., some of the most severe policies implemented during the drug war are being scaled back or scrapped altogether... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBig PharmaBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 22 2021opioidsOverdoseRecoveryWar On Drugs
In 50 years, America has spent a trillion dollars fighting the war on drugs. And made 30 million arrests. WATCH – WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? IMPRISONING MINORITIES! June 17, 2021 - Despite a steep decline in illicit drug usage in the earlier years, drug use in the U.S. is climbing again and more quickly than ever. Accordi... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 22 2021War On Drugs
Poll Shows Huge Public Opposition to “War on Drugs” MAKING A PARADIGM SHIFT – June 9, 2021 - “A different reality—one where we treat people who use drugs with dignity and respect, and one where drugs are no longer an excuse for law enforcement to surveil,... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionJune 15 2021Mental HealthRecoveryRehabWar On Drugs
The legacy of War on Drugs – addiction, incarceration & recovery WATCH – LOCK US UP – May 25, 2021 - You can’t tell the story of Matthews without talking about the War on Drugs. “People were making a lot of money but people was also losing a lot of their livelihoods from the... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaDrug Abuse and AddictionJune 1 2021RecoveryWar On Drugs
Photographs depict the stark reality of addiction in the US SNOW ANGELS – May 21, 2021 - Fearless and prolific conflict photographer James Nachtwey has been at the frontline of battles all over the world. On this occasion, he travelled with visual journalist and editor ... Read More...Alcohol AddictionBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCoronavirusDrug Abuse and Addictioninterventionlife expectancyMay 25 2021Mental HealthOverdosesuicideTraumaWar On Drugs
State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby declares war on drugs over! Will dismiss all possession charges in Baltimore BETTER LATE THAN NEVER – March 26, 2021 - Violent crime, meanwhile, has declined about 20% so far this year compared to the same three months of last year, largely before the coronavirus pandemic, according to ... Read More...Addiction RecoveryBooks, Memoirs, Films, and MediaCompassionDrug Abuse and AddictioninterventionMar 30 2021RecoveryRecovery AdvocateWar On Drugs