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  2. Discrimination against drug addicts - Wikipedia

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    Discrimination against people with substance use disorders is a form of discrimination against people with this disease. In the United States, people with substance use disorders are often blamed for their disease, which is often seen as a moral failing, due to a lack of public understanding about substance use disorders being diseases of the ...

  3. Arguments for and against drug prohibition - Wikipedia

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    The police have been able to solve other crimes, e.g. burglaries, thefts and robberies, by questioning people arrested for using drugs. Some even provide information about people who are selling drugs, and the police have seized large amounts of drugs as a result of information from people brought in for a urine test.

  4. Discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Discrimination is the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong, [1] such as race, gender, age, species, religion, physical attractiveness or sexual orientation. [2]

  5. Drug discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Drug discrimination tests are usually performed in animals, but have also been conducted in humans. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Drug discrimination assays have been employed to assess whether drugs have hallucinogen - or entactogen -like effects, among many other types of drug effects.

  6. Substance abuse prevention - Wikipedia

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    Rational scale to assess the harm of drugs. Substance abuse prevention, also known as drug abuse prevention, is a process that attempts to prevent the onset of substance use or limit the development of problems associated with using psychoactive substances. Prevention efforts may focus on the individual or their surroundings.

  7. Fact-checking claims about California's Proposition 36: What ...

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    CBS News California takes a closer look at the drug component of the high-profile Proposition 36 to fact-check claims about the ballot measure from supporters and opponents.

  8. Race and the war on drugs - Wikipedia

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    Because those who were targeted were typically poor or of moderate means, they often lacked resources to hire an attorney or pay the considerable court costs. As a result, most people who had their property seized did not challenge the government's action, especially because the government could retaliate by filing criminal charges." [43]

  9. Anti-discrimination law - Wikipedia

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    The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 was the first major anti-discrimination legislation passed in Australia, aimed at prohibiting discrimination based on race, ethnicity, or national origin. [12] Jurisdictions within Australia moved shortly after to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, through acts including the Equal Opportunity Act ...