Introduction to the Drug Abuse as Public Health v. Criminal Justice Value Debate

Introduction to the Drug Abuse as Public Health v. Criminal Justice Value Debate – Introduction to debate lectures. Lincoln-Douglas Debate course taught by Jonathan Wolfson at SciAcademy in New Orleans. In this clip, Jonathan provides background on the resolution being debated by NFL and NCFL students for November and December 2010. The resolution is: Resolved: The abuse of illegal drugs ought to be treated as a matter of public health, not of criminal justice. This is lecture 1 in the series brought to you by TheGreatDebate. Stay tuned for more videos posted every week. Resources used in preparing this topic talk: The History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States by Charles Whitebread, Professor of Law, USC Law School available at: www.druglibrary.org Illegal Drugs in America: A Modern History, DEA Museum available at: www.deamuseum.org NFL Resolution Primer