In the 12-month period ending in Oct. 2022, the United States recorded 101,750 overdose deaths, primarily from opioids. Mar 29, 2023 Fentanyl seizures rise at U.S.-Mexico border — here's why GOP lawmakers have incorrectly blamed the spike in fentanyl overdoses on migrants, whom they...
My Drug Period - Stuart McMillen blog 29 May 2013 [...] ‘drug period’, I refer to the 12 months I spent researching, writing and drawing War on Drugs and Rat Park. Prior to those comics, I had written comics mostly about ecology and the natural [...]...
Focusing on municipality-level effects of violence on school enrolment, they do not find any statistically significant impact for most age groups and time periods. Our results suggest that their null findings reflect the comparatively aggregated nature of their measures, and a corresponding failure to...
With the War on Drugs costing$70-105 billion per yearto administer in the USA alone, it is time we tried a saner approach. Thankfully the examples of other countries,notably Portugal, show what can happen if drugs are decriminalised. The sky didn’t fall, as critics feared. Quite the o...
Forced to support both himself and his mother, Chaplin pursued performing as the only thing he could do, and spent a period time sleeping rough around London in the meantime. Chaplin had a steady stream of juvenile parts through his childhood and teenage years, including acting in the play ...
By focusing on the period from 1975 to 2002, this study concentrates on policies passed during the War on Drugs era, which began in 1971 and has only recently shown signs of abating. A policy design framework is used to argue that the social constructions of drug offenders--the way in ...
America's War on Drugs: With Richard Stratton, Ty Hurley, Sam Shoubber, Alberto Maneiro. "America's War on Drugs" is an immersive trip through the last five decades, uncovering how the CIA, obsessed with keeping America safe in the fight against communis
There are plenty of specific reasons for each time period, but the overriding answer is that marijuana smoking by white youth represented a symbolic threat to normative suburban values and capitalist ideologies. The constant racial fear was that “ghetto” pathol...
World War II saw the increased dependence on combat medics and their medical expertise on the battlefield. While many of these adventures in medicine were carried out to benefit sick and wounded soldiers, the Nazi regime used this time period to conduct cruel and unethical medical experiments, ...
WAR war [wor] n.: 1) conflict carried on by force of arms 2) a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations 3) a struggle L ong gone are the days of casually smoking a joint while walking down the streets of New York City without the slightest care of being ...