Drug Abuse Council Supports Ganja Decriminalisation

Drug Abuse Council supports ganja decriminalisation
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) believes that the use of marijuana in Jamaica should be decriminalised not only for medicinal purposes, but also for religious and recreation. “The position of the National …
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Tackling drug abuse one generation at a time
Edel is a child of her time and place – growing up in Dublin’s north inner city during the late 1970s and 1980s when a heroin epidemic hijacked a whole generation. She started drinking at 15, got into heroin at 17 and, although she stopped smoking it …
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Treating Drug Abuse as a Disease, Not a Crime
In a survey released today by the Pew Research Center, 87 percent of people characterized drug abuse is either a “crisis” or a “serious problem” in the U.S. That number hasn’t changed much in nearly twenty years. What has changed is how Americans are …
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Gov Gives Up on Addicts
Pioneered by Eric Wish in the 1970s, The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring survey (ADAM II)—cancelled as a result of budget cuts—went into what has become the virtual hub of America's drug war: prison. Originally known as Drug Use Forecasting (DUF), …
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Bay Ridge pols seek legislative action to curb drug abuse
“Establishing a pilot program will help emergency personnel adapt to increasing incidents of heroin overdose and prescription drug abuse. But we can only address this issue if we remain vigilant about this increased drug usage." This year's state …
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