All Posts Tagged With: "drug prohibition"
Shattered Lives: Portraits From America’s Drug War by Mikki Norris, Chris Conrad, and Virginia Resner
Creative Xpressions Press • 1998 • 118 pages • $19.95 paperback Although many writers criticize the drug war, few, if any, more poignantly illustrate its human casualties than the authors of Shattered Lives: Portraits From America’s Drug War. Mikki Norris, Chris Conrad, and Virginia Resner paint a human face on the thousands of incarcerated Americans [...]
1Feb2000 | Paul Armentano | 0 comments | ContinuedMedicine for the Sick
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. The Drug War: seldom has so much harm been done to so many for so little purpose. Among the most tragic victims [...]
1Oct1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedNational Health Insurance: A Medical Disaster
Affordable health care has become one of the most important social issues of our time. Every news broadcast seems to have a special report on “America’s health care crisis” or a politician demanding “universal health insurance.” Evidence cited for the need for immediate and drastic government action includes: High medical costs. The United States reportedly [...]
1Oct1992 | Jarret B. Wollstein | 6 comments | ContinuedAddiction is an Illness
Dr. Berger is President of Richmond Memorial Hospital; Chairman of the Committee on Alcoholism and Narcotics of the New York State Medical Society; president. Medical Society of the City of New York. Upon pressure from the World Health Organization and other branches of the United Nations, the government of the United Kingdom had announced that [...]
1Oct1956 | Herbert Berger M.D | 1 comment | Continued-
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