 | New York States Drug
Enforcement efforts. Do they reduce crime? Economist Ted Shepard's
latest study says they do the opposite. Read it here. |
| A Drug Policy
Christmas Carol ? Yes indeed. This informative, beautifully-drawn and
written comic book is a joy in the holiday season or anytime. View it online
here. |
| A Change in the Ukraine is a
recounting of Mary Barr's recent trip to the Ukraine and her visit to their
prisons and drug treatment facilities. How does this impoverished former
Soviet satellite handle its drug policy? Find out here. (updated-12/'02) |
| Drug Testing Study - A study by
two Le Moyne College professors show that pre-employment and random
testing of workers are found to be associated with lower levels of
productivity. |
| Fit for Duty...Or Is It?
- If you think drug testing will keep unsafe pilots out of the cockpit and
inadequate drivers out of your child's school bus, you're wrong. But daily
performance-based fitness-for-duty testing can prevent tired, sick, stressed,
or hung-over employees from putting your safety at risk. |
| Pleasure Drugs and
Classical Virtues - Paul Bischke argues that only by reclaiming the
original meanings of the four cardinal Judeo-Christian virtues -- temperance,
prudence, justice and fortitude -- can we create drug policies that are more
humane, wholesome, and effective than our current, punitive policies, which
are based exclusively on a one-dimensional concept of abstinence. |
| This speech to the League of Women
Voters by ReconsiDer's Michael Roona touches on use vs. abuse, addiction,
treatment, and alternative policies. |
| These Sound Bites
are just what you need if you are being interviewed! |
| ReconsiDer Quarterly - View
HTML online or download Acrobat PDF format suitable for printing.
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on thumbnail to see larger version of photo) |
" Prohibition is an awful flop.
We like it.
It can't stop what it's meant to stop.
We like it.
It's left a trail of graft and slime.
It don't prohibit worth a dime.
It's filled our land with vice and crime.
Nevertheless, we're for it."
-Franklin P. Adams, New York World,
1931
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