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In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared what has come to be known as the "war on drugs." Despite costing over a trillion dollars, this war has had limited effects, with cocaine availability remaining steady and overdoses skyrocketing. How serious is America's drug crisis? And what has led...
Reflecting these concerns, we investigate the effects of violence on educational performance among primary school students in Mexico during the peak of violence associated with the “war on drugs” from 2006–11.2 Our central question is whether psychological stress caused by exposure to violence may...
Roland Fryer, an author of the Harvard study and a professor of economics, said the effects of the crack epidemic on a generation of Black families and Black children still haven’t been thoroughly documented. A lack of accountability for the war on drugs bred mistrust of government and law ...
My goal in writing this has nothing to do with encouraging the use of drugs. We live in a country in which doctors regularly overprescribe reasonably healthy people with drugs to ure minor symptoms -- thenmore drugs to cure the side effects of those drugs, and more drugs to stay alert ...
Perhaps, however, the worse results of the American war on drugs are found in its effects on other countries, especially Mexico, Colombia, and other Latin American countries. Mexico is also engaged in a war on drugs, but it is a war almost entirely fought against drugs shipped fro...
While the "War on Drugs" has been criticized in many respects, there has been little attention given to the detrimental impact it has had on children. Fortunately, both state and federal governments are recognizing the problem and have begun taking steps to combat the negative effects the "War...
The conservatives' claim that substance abuse is primarily the result of a defect in the character or constitution of the abuser has had profound effects on both social policy and the research community. Greater awareness is needed on the part of researchers as to how social problems have been ...
Easily Milestone’s most famous work, All Quiet On The Western Front proved a definitive early example of completely successful sound cinema, in part because Milestone elected to film much of it like a silent, complete with dynamic tracking shots, and added sound effects in post-production. He...
The uncanny parallels between alcohol Prohibition and the 'war on drugs'. 28 page comic by Stuart McMillen about Milton Friedman's views on drug laws.