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About Addiction: Alcohol, Legalization, Internet-Addiction, the Drug war, and Teen Drug Use
a couple weeks away, A3 Link posts are back with a brand-new set of addiction article straight off the press! With election season gearing up we have some news regarding new laws on the ballot for legalization in some states, as well as internet-addiciton being deemed an official diagnosis in the new DSM, and everything…
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DARE – Drug Abuse Prevention that doesn’t work
DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is the largest school-based drug abuse prevention program in the United States. 80% of school districts across the country teach the DARE curriculum, reaching an estimated 26 million children (1). Every year, over $1 billion goes into keeping the program running. A billion dollars may be a small price to…
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Global Commission on Drug Policy: Legalization, decriminalization, and the war on drugs
A commission made up of some big names, though not really any names of addiction or drug researchers I noticed, just released a report that’s making a lot of noise throughout every news channel including NPR (see here, and here for stories) and others (see CNN). They want the debate about the current state of…
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Demand & Money: Why Mexican drug cartels aren’t losing this war.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again, but the Mexican drug war isn’t going to be won anytime soon, not while there’s black market demand for narcotics over here in the good old U.S. of A. The reasoning isn’t complicated and it shouldn’t take a RAND foundation study, or a man of…
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About addiction – Len Bias, the war on drugs, addiction statistics, and anonymity
Here are some good links from the recent past. I know I haven’t done this in a while, and it’s not because of a lack of good stuff out there about addiction. I’ve been busy/lazy, so sorry. Addiction tomorrow: An article about the effect of Len Bias’s death in 1986 on the war on drugs.…