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The Other Revolution in Latin America: Leading the Way To a More Progressive Drug Policy
16 hours ago ago from Fog City Journal
Several Latin American countries including Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Equador, are instituting decriminalization policies in an effort to reduce drug violence and costs associated with a failed war on drugs. Photo via EiTv.com By Greg Kamin , FCJ guest columnist December 15, 2009 In April, a new Field Poll showed 56 percent of Californians are in favor of legalizing, taxing, and regulating recreational ...
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15 hours ago ago from Drug WarRant
We've had some good (and some volatile) discussions in comments recently, particularly over what constitutes drug policy reform and its end goals. This is quite healthy (as long as we avoid the name-calling). We have a number of people who frequent this site with different views both of our destination and our route to get there (and even how we should publicly describe our route to get there). I'm going to inject LEAP's Norm Stamper ...
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21 hours ago ago from Disrupts birth
One percent increase can revenue $4 billion in savings A fashionable report by AARP's Visible Policy Institute details strategies used to increase the use of generic direction drugs, which are typically as little as unified-third the fetch of their disgrace name counterparts. Undeterred by compatible increases in brand name drug prices, the prices of generic alternatives have fallen in up to date years. The explosion notes that ...
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18 hours ago ago from Freedom of Medicine and Diet
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22 hours ago ago from Arizona Addiction Rehab & Co-occurring Disorders Blog from Cottonwood de Tucson
It is nice to be writing again. I have been on a very pleasant at home vacation but am now back at work. It is good to get back in the swing of things including this blog. I have discussed several times the problem of the increasing abuse of prescription pain pills (the opioids ) among adolescents and the potential dangers of that abuse but I would like to talk about another aspect of teen drug use and that is misuse of over the counter ...
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Washington Sketch: Obama writing a different prescription now
6 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama vowed to take on the drug industry by allowing Americans to import cheaper prescription medicine. We'll tell the pharmaceutical companies 'thanks, but no, thanks' for the overpriced drugs -- drugs that cost twice as much here as they do in Europe and Canada, he said back then. On Tuesday, the matter came to the Senate floor -- and President Obama forgot the no, thanks part. Siding with the pharmaceutical ...
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