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White
House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs' - WASHINGTON
-- The Obama administration's new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea
that the U.S. is fighting "a war on drugs," a move that would
underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce
illicit drug use.
In his first interview since being confirmed to head the White House Office
of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske said Wednesday the
bellicose analogy was a barrier to dealing with the nation's drug issues.
"Regardless of how you try to explain to people it's a 'war on drugs'
or a 'war on a product,' people see a war as a war on them," he said.
"We're not at war with people in this country."
- The Tolerance Room ten
years later - In
1999, 1,116 young Australians died from a heroin overdose. In parts of the
country, more young Australians were dying from a heroin overdose than from
car crashes. Every day, the number of Victorians who had died from a heroin
overdose so far that year was printed on the front page of the Melbourne
Sun. The number of
Australians dying from heroin overdose each year had been increasing
inexorably since 1964 when six had died.
- Economic
Facts sheet - Canada spends more than $4 on enforcement for every
$1 spent on the health response in dealing with illegal drugs. ($400.3
million vs $88 million) >>>more
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Sound
bytes for change - Questions and Answers on the issue of a regulated
market for currently illegal drugs
- Illicit Drugs Damage Australian
Business... Get the
report here >>
- National Meeting 8
December 2006 Dr
Van Beek's presentation
- "Preventing Harm
from Psychoactive Substance Use" Vancouver City Council http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/fourpillars/pdf/PrevHarmPsychoSubUse.pdf
- Transform (UK) 'After the
War on Drugs - Options for Control' examines key themes in the drug policy
reform debate, details how legal regulation of drug markets will operate,
and provides a roadmap and time line for reform. http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Policy_General_AftertheWaronDrugsReport.htm
- 'Controlling Psychoactive
Substances; the Current System and Alternative Models'. Kings County Bar
Association (USA) Drugs Policy Project Report. http://www.kcba.org/ScriptContent/KCBA/druglaw/proposal/report_am.pdf
- Health Officers Council
Of British Columbia (Canada) "A Public Health Approach To Drug Control
in Canada". To read report: http://cfdp.ca/bchoc.pdf
- Strategy Unit Drugs
Project: Phase 1 Report: "Understanding the Issues" http://www.tdpf.org.uk/Policy_General_Strategy_Unit_Drugs_Report_phase_1.htm
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AGM 2006 Presentations
- Support for Canadian Medically Supervised
Injecting Centre
- Australia
backs safe injecting program - Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper
- You too can support the Canadian Medically Supervised Injecting Centre click
here>>
- The
past, present and future of harm reduction: decades of misunderstanding.
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