Why Drug Courts Are Not the Way Forward on America’s Opioid Crisis
Drumpf’s Opioid Commission thinks drug courts are the answer to the nation’s opioid epidemic. Research shows they are flawed and even harmful to people with opioid use disorders.
Posts Tagged: Drug Policy
The Heroin Epidemic: Policy Strategies for Solving a Two-sided Crisis
Over the past decade, Mexico and the United States have experienced an heroin epidemic that might not be easily solved. An estimated 914,000 people reported using heroin in the past year in the United States, causing the death of over 47,000. How can the rapid increase of demand and supply of the drug be explained? Most importantly, how can it be solved?
Centralizing the Police Force: What It Means For Mexico’s Narco Violence
It is a well-known fact to Mexican citizens, journalists and academics that, beginning 2007 when former President Felipe Calderon declared war on the drug cartels, Mexico became an extremely violent country: going from an average of 9,000 people killed a year to over 27,000. While the country’s murder rate still lags behind that of… Read more »