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Feb
What can we learn from Mark A.R. Kleiman, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Angela Hawken’s new book Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know?
“Despite tens of billions of dollars spent on interdicting drugs from abroad, the supply of drugs has remained steady. The plummeting street price of many illegal drugs over the last few decades is compelling evidence that interdiction has not done much to stem supply. Drug overdoses have increased almost six-fold in the last thirty years. They are now the leading cause of accidental death in the United Sates, having surpassed motor vehicle accidents for the first time in 2011.”
-Marie Gottschalk, “Kicking the Habit“
Photo courtesy of Christian Science Monitor
