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• That initiative is about going back to the 1980s and the war on drugs.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
• Instead, it’s given us the war on drugs and the highest incarceration rate in the world.
  — Ana Zamora, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024
• In at least several cases, ibogaine clinics are run or owned by people formerly dependent on drugs and whose lives were revolutionized by ibogaine.
  — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
• Today’s great reads A movie star, a suicide and a nation’s war on drugs.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The first problem with the war on drugs is the idea of what exactly constitutes a drug.
  — Arun A.k., Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Everyone else in the garage was asleep or nodding out on drugs.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• High drug costs have long been one of Americans’ largest health care headaches, and spending on drugs is on the rise.
  — Tami Luhby, CNN, 17 Aug. 2023
• Karen Weintraub: President Biden has tried to put a cap on drugs.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
• The war on drugs makes a comeback in progressive areas.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Weiss' office plans to use the laptop to demonstrate that Biden was on drugs around the time of his gun purchase in October 2018.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 22 May 2024
• Those who spend the most on drugs will probably save a few thousand dollars a year, according to KFF.
  — David Leonhardt, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• According to Norton’s book, rumors in town insisted that Lund was on drugs or ran off with a boyfriend to start a new life.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2023
• In such a climate, politicians are under pressure to appear tough on drugs.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
• He is also wanted on drugs and weapons charges in Arkansas, the sheriff's office said.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
• There’s concern that bringing back criminal penalties is going back to the war on drugs.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• If not the only nation that doesn’t negotiate prices on drugs.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
• In Monday’s case, the man appeared to be either high on drugs or in mental crisis, witnesses said.
  — Agreen, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• In 2017, Waller nearly lost his life after overdosing on drugs laced with fentanyl.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
• Yet Americans are charged a premium on drugs and healthcare services that others do not have to pay.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• Trump continued, making unfounded claims that Biden was on drugs during his State of the Union address.
  — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 20 June 2024
• Scientists are working on drugs that could wipe out bone marrow without the side effects of chemo, but that research is in early stages.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• Brunson now sees her mother’s embrace of a faith with strict prohibitions on drugs as a way of seeking safety.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• Included with New York’s legalization of weed in 2021 was a central promise to give back to communities that were most harmed by the war on drugs.
  — Ashley Southall, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Tension between the two intensified when Stause accused Young of being on drugs later in the season.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• McBride noted that Hernandez was on drugs and had ignored police commands.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• In early 2020, Gillum was found by police at a South Beach hotel, accompanied by a man who was suspected to have overdosed on drugs.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 4 May 2023
• Less than 20 percent of Medicare expenditures are on drugs.
  — Brian Blase, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The species had the virtue of being slightly nicer (less likely to bite handlers) and smaller (saving money on drugs in preclinical studies) than the rhesus macaque.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• Neumann delves into the history of opioids, reminding us that the war on drugs is a failure, harming addicts and those who need pain relief most.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 5 June 2024
• In one experiment, researchers put patients who’d already detoxed back on drugs.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024