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Eugene

(61,899 posts) Mon Sep 30, 2013, 08:45 PM Sep 2013

War on illegal drugs failing, medical researchers warn

Source: BBC

30 September 2013 Last updated at 23:45 GMT

War on illegal drugs failing, medical researchers warn

Illegal drugs are now cheaper and purer globally than at any time over the last 20 years, a report has warned.

The International Centre for Science in Drug Policy said its report suggested the war on drugs had failed.

The report, published in the British Medical Journal Open, looked at data from seven international government-funded drug surveillance systems.

Its researchers said it was time to consider drug use a public health issue rather than a criminal justice issue.

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War on illegal drugs failing, medical researchers warn (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2013 OP

" was time to consider drug use a public health issue rather than a criminal justice issue." NMDemDist2 Sep 2013 #1

Curtailing the importation of old drugs of abuse and driving up the black market prices Warpy Sep 2013 #2

NMDemDist2

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1. " was time to consider drug use a public health issue rather than a criminal justice issue."

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2013, 08:47 PM

Sep 2013

well duh!

I'm in recovery 20+ years now and i see it in the rooms of the fellowships, people dying, losing everything.

it's heartbreaking

Warpy

(111,261 posts)

2. Curtailing the importation of old drugs of abuse and driving up the black market prices

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Sep 30, 2013, 09:19 PM

Sep 2013

only leads to the development of extremely dangerous bathtub drugs developed by amateur chemists.

Krokodil has been found in AZ. Google it if you haven't eaten recently.

Bath Salts would be another one.

PCP is another one.

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