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In 2021, Gustavo Gorriti, journalist and founder of corruption-focused IDL-Reporteros news media, wrote a sharply critical editorial in the Washington Post on the impact of 50 years of the war on drugs on Latin America. He described the flow of drugs to the US as an "unstoppable industry" that triggered an economic revolution throughout the ...
To add further urgency, politicians and the news media routinely depicted a horror story in which these “pushers” hooked white middle-class girls and women on drugs, consigning them to a ...
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.
Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" rally in Los Angeles, in 1987 "Just Say No" was an advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s as a part of the U.S.-led war on drugs, aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no.
The Government of Puerto Rico has struggled to combat illegal drug use and the resulting crime since the mid-1970s. [5] Their efforts have been referred to as a "War on Drugs". [6] Though drug use was uncommon in Puerto Rico in the 1950s, it markedly increased in the late 1960s.
As the War on Drugs embarks on a co-headlining tour with the National, with support from Lucius, Granduciel called up Variety to discuss the making of “Live Drugs Again,” getting back into the ...
Roger Ebert says The House I Live In "makes a shattering case against the War on Drugs." [10] Peter Bradshaw reviewed the film for The Guardian and summed it up as an "angry and personal attack on America's war on drugs [that] contends it is a grotesquely wasteful public-works scheme". [11]
“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