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"We took the drug and fentanyl crisis head on, and we achieved the first reduction in overdose deaths in more than 30 years," Trump brags, referring to the 4 percent drop between 2017 and 2018 ...
The "war on drugs" is a term commonly applied to a campaign of prohibition and foreign military aid and military intervention undertaken by the US government, with the assistance of participating countries, and the stated aim to define and reduce the illegal drug trade.
The war on drugs, once a weapon in the nation's fight against substance abuse and related crimes, is experiencing a resurgence on the West Coast due to the fentanyl crisis.
Taken together then, the three countermeasures represent what President George W. Bush referred to as his “three-legged stool” strategy of “waging a global war on terror, supporting democracy and reducing the flow of illicit drugs into the United States.” [25] Although Plan Colombia includes components which address social aid and ...
“America’s public enemy number one,” Nixon claimed, “is drug abuse.” Within days, U.S. newspapers took up the metaphor. New Documents Reveal the Bloody Origins of America's Long War on Drugs
At an annual cost to the DEA of $80 million, and involving approximately 140 agents at its onset, Snowcap was the largest counter-narcotics operation that had been launched in Latin America. The U.S. Department of Defense leased 6 UH-1 Huey helicopters, and provided flight training to Bolivian air force pilots and Special Forces training for ...
Toby Fischer lives in South Dakota, where just 27 doctors are certified to prescribe buprenorphine -- a medication that blunts the symptoms of withdrawal from heroin and opioid painkillers. A Huffington Post analysis of government data found nearly half of all counties in America don't have such a certified physician. So every month, Fischer and his mother drive to Colorado to pick up their ...
If the CIA was not involved in the drug trade, it did know about it. As former DCI William Colby acknowledged, the Agency did little about it during the 1960s, but later took action against the traders as drugs became a problem among American troops in Vietnam. The CIA's main focus in Laos remained on fighting the war, not on policing the drug ...