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Sweden is an excellent example. Drug use is just a third of the European average while spending on drug control is three times the EU average. For three decades, [nb 1] Sweden has had consistent and coherent drug-control policies, regardless of which party is in power. There is a strong emphasis on prevention, drug laws have been progressively ...
There are about 600 school districts in about 15,000 nationwide that use drug tests, according to officials from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. [citation needed] White House officials liken drug testing to programs that screen for tuberculosis or other diseases, and said students who test positive don't face criminal ...
Policies criminalizing the possession of drug paraphernalia ostracize people who use drugs and create unsafe conditions, increasing drug-use related harms like disease transmission and overdose ...
Drug decriminalization is in some ways an intermediate between prohibition and legalization, and has been criticized by Peter Lilley as being "the worst of both worlds", in that drug sales would still be illegal, thus perpetuating the problems associated with leaving production and distribution of drugs to the criminal underworld, while also ...
The nature of teen drug use has also changed dramatically since D.A.R.E.’s heyday. The share of high school students who have used illicit drugs, ... We can’t scare teenagers away from drug use
Four years ago, Oregon voters approved a groundbreaking plan to decriminalize possession of all drugs in the state. That brief experiment is now set to come to an end.
Instead of facing criminal charges, individuals caught with drugs are referred to a Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction, where they receive a health assessment and may be recommended for treatment. Portugal’s drug policy has been successful in reducing drug use and associated harms, including HIV infections and overdose deaths. [9]
Months ago, state lawmakers there moved to roll back portions of that state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law after rampant public drug use during that state’s fentanyl crisis ...