Drug Abuse

Charles Lane: Legalization can't end our trouble with drugs
The data don't actually show that drug prohibition is futile, that its negative side effects are worsening or that legalization would eliminate the social-policy dilemmas and trade-offs posed by drug abuse. Does drug prohibition achieve its main goal …
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Special report: The menace of meth
The drug has gripped economically-depressed Madison County, and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in prevention, treatment and law enforcement. In recent years, the county has shot to the top of state and national charts in meth …. Meth …
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OUR VIEW | We're all the solution for student success
The discipline statistics — which may be contested or explained by districts as not truly indicative, depending on how records are reported — can cause alarm. It's too easy to react with blame to such uncomfortable data — on those kids, that … It …
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