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We're Losing the Drug War |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: William J. Bennett |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1995 |
| Size: 1,232 Words, 8,920 Characters |
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FOOTNOTE: Testimony before the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice, March 9, 1995.vbcrlf The progress against drugs was the result of a significant cultural shift. During the late 1960s and much of the 1970s, drug use was widely thought of--especially by the young--as harmless fun or mere self-indulgence. But by the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, when the human carnage caused by drug use became impossible to deny, it became increasingly--and far more accurately--seen as a personal, medical, and economic catastrophe.vbcrlf Parents, educators, students, clergy, community leaders, and even the media he...
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...s, we know what works. The common denominators are almost always the same: civic concern, moral seriousness, and tough-minded and intelligent policies. The people I visited and people all over the country are doing great work. And that work will surely go on. But they deserve to have the federal government meet its responsibilities, too. And right now, that's not happening. It's a disgrace. vbcrlf
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