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Mountains of research show that drug education strategies of the 1980s and 90s were ineffective. Schools are hoping an updated approach will have more of an impact. D.A.R.E. didn’t work.
The lack of government regulation and control over the lucrative illegal drug market has created a large population of unregulated drug dealers who lure many children into the illegal drug trade. The U.S. government's most recent 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) reported that nationwide over 800,000 adolescents ages 12–17 ...
Variations of drug liberalization include drug legalization, drug relegalization, and drug decriminalization. [1] Proponents of drug liberalization may favor a regulatory regime for the production, marketing, and distribution of some or all currently illegal drugs in a manner analogous to that for alcohol , caffeine and tobacco .
Drugs, in the context of prohibition, are any of a number of psychoactive substances whose use a government or religious body seeks to control. What constitutes a drug varies by century and belief system. What is a psychoactive substance is relatively well known to modern science. [3]
Decriminalization didn’t make Oregon’s drug problems worse, just more visible “Drug abuse isn’t pretty. But make no mistake: Even if you don’t see the carnage of the overdose epidemic ...
Funding for drug treatment centers in Oregon, financed by the state's pioneering drug decriminalization policy, stood at over a quarter-billion dollars Friday as officials called for closer ...
Drug possession, and recreational drug use (see: drug liberalization) Euthanasia (see: legality of euthanasia) Gambling (see: gambling age) Homosexuality (see: decriminalization of homosexuality and LGBT rights by country or territory) Polygamy [3] (see: legality of polygamy) Prostitution (see: decriminalization of sex work) Public nudity ...
The Global Drug Survey, a nonscientific survey that has grown into the world's largest annual survey of recreational drug use trends, found that self-reported use of drugs such as cannabis, LSD ...