Earth Day veterans reflect on progress
Now, it's focused more on immediate gratification, diversional activities," said Majewski, retired head of therapy and rehabilitation services for Delaware Psychiatric Center. Others counted down a long list of local and national accomplishments over …
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Sea turtles are being released at Little Talbot State Park
The turtles were rescued in Cape Cod last year, and spent months of rehabilitation at the New England Aquarium's rescue center. The once severely hypothermic turtles … latest will take place Tuesday in Northeast Florida. Action News Russell Colburn …
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Balancing Act: Low pay a source of worker stress
Two years ago, her hours at the rehabilitation center where she works were cut from 40 a week to 35. "I work so hard for my paycheck, but it's still too little to take care of all the bills," Joseph said. Her husband drives at forklift for a cargo …
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Facing Cape Cod's drug addiction crisis
The high death toll may finally have brought attention to the prescription drug problem specifically and the disease of addiction in general. "We're happy to have the public outcry that is long overdue," said Ray Tamasi, CEO and president of the …
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South Jersey drug treatment providers: For heroin addicts, more inpatient care …
That's not a lot of time to see how well a law is working, but addiction treatment professionals in South Jersey have reservations about the law when it comes to a troubling trend in drug abuse. The law, the state Senate bill number of which was S881 …
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New Helpline in River Edge Assists Teens Find Substance Abuse Treatment
Drug rehab centers can provide teenage addicts with a variety of treatment options including drug detox, dual diagnosis, individual and group therapy along with mandatory education programs. The goal of the new helpline is provide much-needed access …
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Agency to receive funds for substance abuse programs
In addition, however, the division requested $ 3,615,000 to bolster existing programs by adding two more assertive community treatment teams in the state, an additional recovery resource center in New Castle County that moves away from expensive …
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Gov. Deval Patrick announces reforms to provide re-entry programs for inmates …
Deval Patrick on Thursday announced several reforms of the criminal justice system aimed at helping inmates reenter society after incarceration and improving treatment for individuals with substance abuse problems by keeping them out of the prison system.
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Barnstable County Correction Facility lauded for substance abuse treatment
The Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) program at the Barnstable County Correctional Facility received high praise this week. According to a BCCF release, the facility has been chosen, along with five others, as a model for the treatment of …
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Question by Just My Luck: Basic questions about the War on Drugs?
I’m trying to study for a course and I’m watching a documentary “American Drug War: The Last White Hope.” I’m not getting any specifics to answers my questions though. Does anyone have any quick answers to these questions?

oHow is the ‘war on drugs’ a war on the poor?
oHow is the ‘war on drugs’ a race war?
oWho benefits from the ‘war on drugs’? How?
oWho suffers most from the ‘war on drugs’? How?

I’m thinking
The war on drugs is a war on the poor because the richer in society can afford their addictions and therefore hide it well: possible bribes, don’t end up living on the street, prostitution, etc.
The rich benefit as addictions to legal drugs- such as alcohol and drugs- and the higher end rich companies own these companies and therefore profit from peoples addictions.

I know it doesn’t all have to do with legal drugs…but this video is really interesting but not giving me the answers I need.

Best answer:

Answer by Russell Smiley
1. People that are addicted to drugs, but can’t afford rehab suffer. They don’t really have a choice because addiction is a medical chronic disease, so their free will is compromised. So they keep on doing the drugs and don’t have thousands of dollars, so they can get the treatment they deserve, so they lock them up instead. This is the number one reason why jails are full and real criminals get off, while the drug user rots in prison.

2. I believe that blacks and Latinos are much more likely to get searched, stopped and harassed by the cops. Therefore they are more likely to get arrested.

3. The drug dealers and gangs benefit from drugs being illegal. If every drug was legalized, then drug dealers would be put out of business. Gangs would also lose a lot of power.

4. People that are hopelessly addicted suffer the most from the war on drugs.

ADD: They also have legal synthetic drugs out now. One popular drug is Mephedrone. They also have bath salts and other drugs. Its legal because they get around the law by calling it something else and changing the formula. These drugs are even more dangerous.

Revealed: The Top 12 Places to Avoid in Britain
The controversial Channel 4 documentary has drawn criticism for its unfair portrayal of the residents of James Turner Street in Birmingham as perennial benefits claimants. But official figures show that in the Ladywood constituency … Liverpool has …
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The class is free. Sign up at customer service. — A screening of the documentary "Living Downstream" will take place on Tuesday, March 4, at 6 p.m. "Living Downstream" deals with the connection between the health of our bodies and the health of our …
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Lethal drug mix hits Cape Cod
The AIDS Support Group operates a needle-exchange program, trains people in the use of the overdose-reversal medication Narcan and employs an outreach worker to engage directly with drug users on the streets. Many Cape emergency workers also have …
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Barnstable Youth Commission takes on teen drug use
Barnstable Youth Commission members (from left) Samuel Spillane,16, Elizabeth Ells,17, and Nicole Neville,17, and Barnstable detective Reid Hall answer questions about drugs and alcohol in the school with the Community Network of Cape Cod at the …
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Simon Chapman honoured as Skeptic of the Year: a good time to look back on …
“Prof Chapman, who is Professor of Public Health, Associate Dean Communications, Public Health, School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, has undertaken extensive research into the media's communication of public health issues and …
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Patrick Kennedy heads up group fighting to stop marijuana legalization in Mass.
Jody Hensley is coordinating SAM in Massachusetts, which will work with the Massachusetts Prevention Alliance, and will plan to disburse research and statistics, while seeking to compare the well-funded legalization effort to “Big Tobacco.” Kennedy …
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Broken in the Badlands
Brothel madams such as Brana Shazker and Rosie Gerbert first arrived as trafficked girls from the poverty-stricken Russian Bessarabia, while countless prostitutes came from broken homes resulting from the White Russian exodus and the life of poverty …
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