We Need a Conceptual Breakthrough in the War on Drugs

Published November 12, 2012

We Need a Conceptual Breakthrough in the War on Drugs

Filed under: drug addiction news

Americans believe drugs cause addiction — the more drugs, the more addiction. So we need, above all, always to stem the supply of drugs. And the disease theory espoused by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (embodied by Nora Volkow: June 13, 2011 …
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Baird: How misguided drug policies can have tragic results

Filed under: drug addiction news

… William Evans and his colleagues, just published by the National Bureau for Economic Research, should also encourage this change, as it spotlights tragic consequences stemming from our overreliance on criminalizing rather than treating drug addiction.
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