Gov't wedging itself between doctors and patients. The nation's top health officials are stepping up calls to require doctors to log in to pill-tracking databases before prescribing painkillers and other high-risk drugs. The move is part of a multi-pronged strategy by the Obama administration to tame an epidemic of abuse and death tied to ... MORE
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Federal Drug Warriors Push For Pill-Tracking Databases
Gov't wedging itself between doctors and patients. The nation's top health officials are stepping up calls to require doctors to log in to pill-tracking databases before prescribing painkillers and other high-risk drugs. The move is part of a multi-pronged strategy by the Obama administration to tame an epidemic of abuse and death tied to ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Coming Out of the Drug War Haze?
Cautious optimism may be appropriate. President Obama's recent speech
on the opioid overdose epidemic offers a ray of hope that the country's
approach to drugs might one day adopt what has been called the first
rule of American business: When all else fails, try doing it right. Noting with considerable understatement that "treatment is ... MOREVIDEO: It's Back: Federal Asset Forfeiture Laws
Government gives itself a license to steal. No crime necessary.
Police Humor: Cops Scam Woman Into Her Bringing Meth In For Ebola Contamination Test, Then Toss Her Ass In Jail
by David Kravets. Some hooks don't require bait. A Central Texas police department issued a "breaking news alert" on
Facebook, cautioning residents that meth and heroin in the Granite
Shoals area "could be contaminated with the life-threatening disease Ebola."
Last week's fake Facebook alert urged the public "NOT" to ingest those
illicit drugs ... MOREFeds Resume Program That Lets Cops Steal From You
Stephanie Slade: 'Drug Users Need Treatment,' Says President Obama. Not So Fast, Says Dr. Carl Hart
The vast majority of drug users are not addicts. "For too long we've viewed drug addiction through the lens of criminal justice," President Obama said yesterday
at a conference in Atlanta. "The most important thing to do is reduce
demand. And the only way to do that is to provide treatment—to see it as
a public health problem and not a ... MOREIllegal Drugs Should Be Decriminalized, Say Health Experts
by Lisa Ryan. Current policies are damaging. The war on drugs has failed – and certain illegal substances should now be decriminalized, according to some of the world’s leading health experts. Harsh drug control policies have done little to affect drug markets or drug use, experts argued. Instead, the war on drugs and zero-tolerance ... MORELancet Commission Recommends Drug Legalization
by Jacob Sullum. The last time the U.N. General Assembly held a "special session" (UNGASS) on drug policy, it was organized under the slogan "A Drug-Free World...We Can Do It." Pino Arlacchi, then executive director of the U.N. Drug Control Program, insisted "there is no reason" the world's supply of cocaine and heroin "cannot be eliminated in ... MORE
Support For Marijuana Legalization Hits All-Time High
by Christopher Ingraham. A new survey released today
by the the Associated Press and the University of Chicago finds that a
record-high percentage of Americans -- 61 percent -- say they support
marijuana legalization. The survey uses the same question wording
("Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal, or not?") on
marijuana as ... MORECarey Welder: Nixon Advisor Admitted War On Drugs Invented To Crush Anti-War And Black Movements
A damning revelation comes to light. In 1994, a former Nixon policy adviser admitted the War on Drugs was
waged not to keep Americans safe, but to crush dissent. According to John Ehrlichman,
who served time in prison for his involvement in the Watergate scandal,
the Drug War was intended to disempower anti-war and black ... MOREPhysicians Face Moral Dilemma In Drug War Conscription
by Jeffrey A. Singer. Gov't wants the narco squad to be your doctor. America’s physicians have been conscripted as law enforcement agents in the never-ending War on Drugs, and it puts us in a moral dilemma. As media attention has turned to the recent national surge in prescription-opioid and heroin abuse, politicians feel compelled to be ready ... MOREStephen Chapman: No Opiates For The Masses?
Drug war becomes war against pain relief. There is no problem so bad that government-imposed remedies cannot make it worse, spawn new problems or both. A new confirmation of that phenomenon may be on the way, thanks to new recommendations from an agency intent on curbing the use of opiates. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease ... MOREIlya Somin: Supreme Court Dismisses Nebraska-Oklahoma Lawsuit Against Marijuana Legalization In Colorado
Drug warriors take one on the chin. The Supreme Court today refused to hear a case
filed by the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma claiming that neighboring
Colorado’s legalization of marijuana violates federal law and inflicts
various harms on them: The U.S.
Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit from Nebraska and ... MOREDrug War Myths Exploded: 7 Facts About Drugs That Will Make You Question Everything You Thought You Knew
by Johann Hari. A prevailing lack of wisdom. There's no subject in our culture where the conversation is dominated by myths and misconceptions so much as drugs. We are frightened to talk about it. We are tempted to fall back on stock-phrases and mental spasms -- Just Say No, and all its more modern twists. I have always been sympathetic to more ... MORELegal Pot Causes Drug Cartel Revenues To Plummet
by Oscar Pascual. free market 1 black market 0. Marijuana legalization may have accomplished what the War on Drugs has failed to do — put the squeeze on Mexican drug cartel activity. The U.S. Border Patrol has released 2015 data
showing that the number of marijuana seizures throughout the southwest
U.S./Mexico border has fallen to the ... MORE
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