Public Opinion: Three-Quarters of Likely Voters Believe Drug War is Failing...
According to a Zogby/Inter-American Dialogue poll released Thursday, more than three-quarters of likely voters polled said America's drug war is a failure. That is a sharp contrast with current US and...
View ArticleLatin America: UNODC Head Again Blames Drugs -- Not Drug Prohibition -- for...
UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) executive director Antonio Maria Costa used the occasion of the October 8 meeting of Ministers Responsible for Public Safety in Mexico City to again blame the drug...
View ArticleThink Tanks: Substance Abuse Center "Join Together" Merges With Califano's...
The Boston University-based drug treatment and prevention group Join Together is merging with the controversial National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, an outfit run for years by former...
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The White House: Obama on Drug Policy
The incoming Obama administration has posted its agenda online at the White House web site Whitehouse.gov. While neither drug policy nor criminal justice merited its own category in the Obama agenda,...
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Feature: Narcs Cheer -- House Economic Stimulus Bill Would Give Byrne Grant...
As part of the $825 billion economic stimulus bill passed by the House last week, the Democratic Party leadership and the Obama administration included $3 billion for the controversial Byrne Justice...
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Canada: With Conservative Government Pushing Tough Crime Package, Liberal MP...
The Conservative government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has introduced a crime and drugs package it had hoped to quickly push through Parliament, but with opposition, the Liberals...
View ArticleThe Need for Prescription Drug Harm-Reduction
Today I had the second appointment with my psychiatrist. In ten minutes, I was prescribed a 5 month supply of the stimulant medication Adderall.read more
View ArticleEurope: Scottish Attitudes toward Drugs, Drug Users Harsh and Getting...
Scottish public opinion is taking a harder line toward drug use and drug users, according to the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2009. Support for marijuana legalization has declined by half since...
View ArticleSending a Meth Message, Does It Work?
For the second year, graphic television ads showing actors portraying pathetic and physically damaged drug addicts remind people about the danger of methamphetamine -- but does the scary message work?...
View ArticleOne Toke Over the Line: The Assertion That Prop. 19 Is Contributing to a Rise...
The Los Angeles Times editorial board says that Gil Kerlikowske should have checked such sources as the Congressional Research Service before jumping to conclusions. An April report, issued to advise...
View ArticleLos Angeles Promoting Safe Ecstasy Use
Los Angeles County Health officials have posted tips for safe ecstasy use at the publicly owned Los Angeles Coliseum and Sports Arena.
View ArticleKnox County D.A.R.E Drug Prevention Curriculum Bumped in Face of Call for...
This spring, the Knox County Sheriff's Office will teach its final classes of the 25-year-old Drug Awareness Resistance Education program in local county schools. D.A.R.E., developed as a drug...
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"Is the D.A.R.E. Program Good for America's Kids?," on ProCon.org
Is the D.A.R.E. program good for America's kids? Read the arguments and the evidence for and against, on the web site dare.procon.org, part of the ProCon.org family. Follow Drug War Chronicle for more...
View ArticleIs DARE Program Worth It?
While participants remain enthusiastic, scientific reviews have been negative on the effectiveness of the DARE program, which started in Los Angeles in 1983. A 2006 report by the U.S. Surgeon General...
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Is the D.A.R.E. Program Good for America's Kids?, from ProCon.org
Is the D.A.R.E. program good for America's kids (K-12)? Read the pro and con arguments with detailed citations at dare.procon.org, part of the ProCon.org family.Follow Drug War Chronicle for more...
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New Group Seeks to Stop Marijuana Legalization [FEATURE]
The passage of marijuana legalization measures by voters in Colorado and Washington in November has sparked interest in marijuana policy like never before, and now it has sparked the formation of a new...
View ArticleChina, Southeast Asia Vow More Better Drug War
At a meeting in Myanmar Thursday, China and five Southeast Asian nations vowed to redouble their efforts and boost cooperation in an effort to get a grip on illegal drug use and trafficking, which they...
View ArticleTelephone TownHall Meeting on Drug Education, with Dr. Carl Hart and the Drug...
[image:1 align:right]Protecting Our Children: How Drug Education Is Failing Our Kids and What We Need To Do About ItA Telephone TownHall Meeting Hosted by the Drug Policy Alliance, Thursday, May 14,...
View ArticleChronicle AM: Kansas City Decriminalizes, WV MedMJ Bill Nears Final Stage,...
Kansas City votes to decriminalizes, a Maryland bill to expand medical marijuana business opportunities advances, so does a package of Maryland bills aimed at the state's opioid crisis, and...
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The White House: Obama on Drug Policy
The incoming Obama administration has posted its agenda online at the White House web site Whitehouse.gov. While neither drug policy nor criminal justice merited its own category in the Obama agenda,...
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