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Wiser Course, Ending Drug Prohibition
A Wiser Course: Ending Drug
Prohibition
A Report of
The Special Committee on Drugs and the Law
of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
June 14, 1994
- Introduction
- The Costs of Prohibition
- Distortion of the Judicial System
- New York State
- Other States
- Federal Courts
- The Judiciary is Impatient with the Present System
- Efforts to Handle Court Congestion
- The Prison State
- Erosion of the Rule of Law and Civil Liberties
- Perception of Ineffectiveness
- Perception of a Self-Perpetuating System
- Police Corruption
- Poor Children are Victims of the "War on Drugs"
- Selective Prosecution
- Erosion of Constitutional Rights
- Forfeiture's Heavy Hand
- Erosion of Privacy Rights
- Prohibition-Induced Violence
- Prohibition's Failure to Limit Drug Use
- Prohibition Threatens Public Health
- Spread of Disease
- Sharing Needles
- Trading Sex for Drugs
- Neglect of Health
- Avoidance of the Health-Care System
- Lack of Information and Quality Control
- Adulterated Drugs, Designer Drugs, and Drugs of Unknown
Potency
- Lack of Knowledge About Safer Use
- Using Alcohol and Tobacco Instead of "Soft Drugs"
- Injuries Due to Violence
- Diversion of Resources from Treatment and Prevention
- The Sense of Treating Drugs as a Public Health Problem
- Treatment Works
- Self-Help Groups
- Therapeutic Communities
- Other Inpatient Drug-Free Treatment Programs
- Outpatient Methadone Maintenance Programs
- Outpatient Drug-Free Therapy
- Empirical Research on Effective Drug Treatment
- Studies Examining the Effects of Treatment on Substance Use
- Studies Examining the Effects of Drug Treatment on the
Consequences of Drug Abuse
- Education Works
- Life Skills Training Program
- Students Taught Awareness and Resistance
- Project Healthy Choices
- Student Assistance Program
- Smart Moves
- Seattle Social Development Project
- Programs for Children of Addicts
- Toward a New Drug Policy
- Conclusion
The Report
The Hearings - in ASCII Text format
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