war on drugs

Former Crack Addict Shares Story


Former Crack Addict Shares Story – Thu, May 23, 2013: A Halifax woman says her crack cocaine addiction nearly ruined her life. But a decision to confront her drug use and come clean has turned…

 

Why Decriminalizing Marijuana Will Help the Failing War on Drugs

Filed under: Crack Addiction

If anything, judging from the thousands of family breakups, the mountainous carnage from alcohol-related accidents and physical deaths from liquor addiction, marijuana use is far safer than alcohol. But marijuana, as with the wildly disparate racial … Read more on Highbrow Magazine

Why Are Drug-Addicts Treated Like Criminals?

Question by Cameron: Why are drug-addicts treated like criminals?
And how exactly does putting a drug-addict in jail help them get off the drugs and return to being productive members of society? Is it obvious when billions is spent on the war on drugs with an 80% failure rate and a worsening poverty and societal discontent?
“(3) Whether or not they become a “productive member of society” is *their* choice.”

Stockton Treatment Center Launches Adult, Adolescent Programs to Tackle

Stockton Treatment Center Launches Adult, Adolescent Programs to Tackle

Filed under: ketamine addiction

These programs expand upon the center's already established substance abuse structure. Among the drugs that the Stockton Treatment Center helps adults and adolescents get rid of include Roxicodone, Suboxone, Subutex, Valium, Spice, and Ketamine. Read more on DigitalJournal.com

 

The war on drugs shows how scientifically illiterate our MPs have become

Filed under: ketamine addiction

How to Praise Your Kids Without Messing Them Up for Life

How to Praise Your Kids Without Messing Them Up for Life

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Side Effects Brain

So far, the research has treated praise as a fixed influence—a kind of powdered sugar (or crack) that tastes the same to everyone. But a new study in Psychological Science clarifies that praise's effects depend on the characteristics of the kid … Read more on Slate Magazine (blog)

 

Leigh Paatsch's guide to movies

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Side Effects Brain

The US Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs

The US Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs

Filed under: crack cocaine law change

… prison sentences. And at the end of last year, President Obama pardoned thirteen people and commuted the sentences of eight prisoners who were sentenced under the old ratio and were therefore serving long sentences for crack cocaine convictions … Read more on Wired

 

Five homes remain evacuated as TransCanada Piplelines deals with a natural

Filed under: crack cocaine law change

Michelle Alexander on Bill Moyers: Locked Out of the American Dream

Michelle Alexander on Bill Moyers: Locked Out of the American Dream

Filed under: signs of crack cocaine use

We need to crack down. We need law and order." And as I've documented at great lengths in the book, and many other political scientists and historians have as well, the get tough movement and the war on drugs really is traceable to a backlash against … Read more on Truth-Out

 

NOPD: Central City father sold crack with infant son in arms

Filed under: signs of crack cocaine use

Could You Imagine if Hitler Was High?

Question by : Could you imagine if Hitler was high?
Could you imagine if he was giving one of his most famous speech while he was very high on marijuana, man … what could have happened?

Best answer:

Answer by mabelchong.
He probably would of sweated less in his speeches?
idk.

Answer by Marli
Since Hitler’s doctor, Morell, was injecting him with plant based stimulants, he may have been high.

What do you think? Answer below!

 

Colombia: A Forgotten Front in the War on Drugs Heats Up

Filed under: physical effects of cocaine

What Comes to Mind When You Think of a “Drug Addict”?

Question by candigal: What comes to mind when you think of a “drug addict”?
Are “drug addicts ” bad people? Is drug use a choice? What is the eccomomic status of most people who use drug? What are some of the names people have for drug addicts? Do you think treatment works? How are “addicts” different then “non-addicts”? This is for an essay I am writing. Thanks for your help. Also do you think that there is a certain eithnic group that has a higher rate of substance abuse?

Best answer:

E-Street: Should or Will Pot Ever Be Legal?

E-Street: Should or will pot ever be legal?

Filed under: crack cocaine s effect

Pot – and ALL drugs should be legal!!! The stupid 'War on Drugs' just created more powerful and dangerous gangs who are better armed that the government people. As long as there is demand, there will be suppliers….its just straight & plain economics. Read more on The Province (blog)

 

AP Photo/Charles Arbogast

Filed under: crack cocaine s effect

Healing Homes: For Twin Falls Women, Beating Addiction Means Addressing

Healing Homes: For Twin Falls women, beating addiction means addressing

Filed under: crack addictions

“Burley is probably the biggest spot I've experienced where every other house is a crack house,” she said. “There is so much. In Heyburn, I had many friends that lived a couple of blocks from each other, and there was drug use everywhere.” For others … Read more on Twin Falls Times-News

 


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