The United Nations Global Commission on Drug Policy released a report in June, 2011, stating, "The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and years after President Nixon launched the US government’s war on drugs, fundamental reforms in national and global drug control policies are urgently needed."
In the United States, the phrase 'War on Drugs' has recently fallen out of official favor. However, enormous amounts of public funds and military resources continue to be poured into violent struggles around the world. Meanwhile, efforts to treat those who are addicted to the use of substances languish in obscurity and neglect.
Tremendous emphasis continues to be placed on punishing those who are enslaved to addiction while pitifully small effort is applied toward releasing them and even less is aimed at tackling the various initial stressors that set the slide into addiction into motion.
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