THE WAR ON DRUGS

Ren in The War On Drugs
November 10, 2018

The “War on Drugs” Didn’t Work in Other Countries Either

Here is a phrase that gets tossed around quite often, “The war on drugs.” This phrase actually came from the Reagan Administration, when First Lady Nancy Reagan pioneered the War on Drugs in 1983.

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Joanne in The War On Drugs
April 19, 2018

Is the Death Penalty For Dealers a Deterrent, or A Smoke Screen?

President Trump is suggesting stiffer penalties for certain individuals who are convicted of dealing drugs. This could include the death penalty. According to Trump, “If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we are wasting our time.” Trump went on to say that dealers “will kill thousands of people during their lifetime” but won’t be punished for the carnage they cause. He went on to say that this punishment would be only used against the “big pushers, the ones who are really killing people.”

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Joanne in The War On Drugs
April 2, 2018

Drug Crisis in Muskogee

Muskogee, Oklahoma is the epicenter of the drug crisis in Oklahoma. Cody McDonell, the State of Oklahoma’s health department public information officer said, “The 2016 county-level data from the Oklahoma Prescription Monitoring Program indicates the opioid prescribing rate for Muskogee County is 38% higher than the state average.”

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Ren in The War On Drugs
March 3, 2018

Why We Can’t Arrest Our Way Out of Addiction

The War on Drugs represents a failed and flawed view of addiction as a moral deficiency. Addiction is not a moral failure, but incarcerating addicts is. Is Prison really a solution?

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