High Society: U.S. Drug Policy a Total Failure, Say Users and Experts

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In a word, everybody's crazy about drugs.

Whether by prescription or on the street, whether you like your pill dressed in Pfizer blue or prefer little dull ones stamped with a bat emblem, love them or hate them, we've got a thing for drugs.

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High Society: U.S. Drug Policy a Total Failure, Say Users and Experts

Government agencies of every variety want to control or get rid of them altogether, while every little criminal -- from the two-bit grifter on the corner to the really nice doctor eight floors above - - seem to do all they can to keep them coming.

"Yes, we're pretty down the rabbit hole on all this," says Pat Flemming, who, for the past 20 years, has led the

state's substance abuse prevention program or directed Salt Lake County's efforts. "We're at a crossroads. We're either going to keep at it as if it were some kind of war or we're going to make some real headway. We're starting to -- the endmethnow campaign, for example -- go in the right direction.

"Compassion and treatment is the morally right and the much more economically sensible thing to do," he said. "Continuing to turn peop...

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