Katya Korol is a graduate student. Sarah Fraser is a family physician who can be reached at her self-titled site, Sarah Fraser MD. She is the author of Humanities Emergency.
During the final presidential debate, Joe Biden said that “no one should be going to jail for a drug problem, they should be going to rehabilitation,” effectively suggesting that substance use be decriminalized in the US.
The war on drugs
Since President Nixon declared the “war on drugs” nearly half a century ago, the general global response to drug use has been focused on enforcement. Zero tolerance. Since the Nixon years, drug-related …
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