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Fighting the Real War on Drugs |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--IS IT A WAR ON DRUGS? |
| Author: Bill Ritter |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 1,223 Words, 7,729 Characters |
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Declaring a war on drugs, as we did in the early 1980s, was problematic from the beginning. Drug use, abuse, and addiction are the product of many complex causes. A law enforcement response that viewed the users, abusers, and addicts of our society as individuals who should be dealt with by strictly punitive measures was, in light of the complexity of addiction issues, far too narrow.
Those who traffic in drugs for a mercenary's profit and who ensure that a bountiful supply of illegal drugs is available to casual users and hardened addicts are an altogether different matter. They deserve whatever society can do to halt their illegal trafficking, including forfeiture of their ill-gotten gains and lengthy prison sentences.
But drug cases do not always fit into the well-...
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... resource we can muster, as a society, to reduce demand. At the very least, that translates into more of the following: drug education, drug courts, drug-treatment programs, mental-health treatment, employment and education programs for recovering addicts, and drug-free workplace programs. As one who has been in the trenches since we declared war, it seems like our only real option. vbcrlf
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