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The War on Drugs Is a War on People Like Me

by Alfrieda Hylton | Jul 16, 2021 | Blog, Criminal Justice, Featured, overdose crisis, Race

The War on Drugs has been with us for more than fifty years, and hasn’t been a war on drugs at all. It’s been a war on people: people like me, and my family. Black people. The part where it was supposed to decrease drug use? That part failed. I live in Prince George’s...

50 Years Later, End the War on Drugs

by Ellen Glover | Jun 17, 2021 | Blog, Featured, overdose crisis

Fifty years ago, on June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a “full scale attack” on drug use. It was the beginning of the War on Drugs. Nixon — and many presidents since — promised the War on Drugs would save lives. Trillions of dollars later, incarceration...

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