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Addiction Treatment is Only Effective Way to Fight Opioid Crisis

Imagine a country where over two million people are addicted to opioids. A country where more than 90 people overdose on opioids every day. A country where babies are born already suffering from the...

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The Victims of Marijuana Prohibition

Historically, arguments in favor of legalization have relied on two distinct paradigms: the libertarian, which argues that drug regulation is not within the bounds of legitimate government action, and...

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The Opioid Crisis: The Need for Oval Office Leadership

On a frozen December night, an Intensive Care Unit bustled with doctors and police officers as a young man, the son of a Lieutenant in my police department, exhaled his last breath. He began taking...

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American Rights: Guns, Drugs, and the Healing Power of Common Sense

Anybody who’s seen the writing on the wall understands that coast-to-coast legal medical and recreational marijuana in the U.S. is just a matter of time. Why is the American Congress dragging their...

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West Virginia: America’s Drug Capital

All alone tucked between two valleys in West Virginia, among the Appalachian Mountains, there used to be a town with beautiful nature, bustling coalmines, and developing cities. It’s now infested with...

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The Drug Epidemic & Decriminalization

There are 70,000 to 100,000 individual deaths from opioid overdoses each year. It is estimated that there were 99,000 to 253,000 deaths from to illicit drug use in 2010 and 8,440 overdose deaths...

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Washington is Finally Tackling the Opioid Crisis

In 2016, opioid overdoses claimed the lives of 42,000 Americans. That’s up dramatically from 26,000 opioid deaths in 2014. To put things in perspective, terrorists have claimed the lives of 2,961...

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Changing How We Fight the War on Drugs

Since 2000, the United States government has spent $10.5 billion on Plan Colombia, a program designed to eradicate drug production. But last month, the United Nations released a report stating that...

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60 Medical Professionals Charged in Federal Opioid Crackdown

The opioid crisis continues to claim lives daily, even with widespread public awareness of the dangers of drugs in this class. One of the factors complicating the issue of opioid abuse is that many...

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Cartel Kingpin El Chapo is Jailed for Life, but the U.S.-Mexico Drug Trade is...

The infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera – aka “El Chapo” – has been sentenced to life plus an additional 30 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy, money laundering and weapons...

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