{"id":654316,"date":"2013-04-24T15:37:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=1844992a4781dbf0fc459f79e942a93b"},"modified":"2013-04-24T15:37:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:37:47","slug":"drug-policy-reform-in-action-a-21st-century-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654316","title":{"rendered":"Drug Policy Reform In Action: A 21st Century Approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor's Note: This blog post is cross-posted from the ONDCP Blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The President has outlined his vision <\/a>of an America built to last—where an educated, skilled workforce has the knowledge, energy and expertise to compete in the global marketplace. Yet–for far too many Americans–that vision is limited by drug use, which not only diminishes the potential of the individual, but jeopardizes families, communities and neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

The economic costs of drug use are enormous: In 2007 alone, illicit drug use cost taxpayers more than $193 billion in lost productivity, healthcare, and criminal justice costs. But the human costs are worse. Nationwide, drug-induced overdose deaths now surpass homicides and car crashes as the leading cause of injury death in America.<\/p>\n

We are not powerless to address these challenges. And as recent data has shown, we are not unable to reverse these trends<\/a>. Prescription drug abuse is beginning to decline<\/a>. Cocaine use and related overdoses are dropping<\/a>. And recent data show the nation’s prison and jail population dropping <\/a>for the third straight year.<\/p>\n

Today we are releasing a science-driven plan for drug policy reform in America to build upon this progress. This 21st century drug policy outlines a series of evidence-based reforms that treat our nation’s drug problem as a public health issue, not just a criminal justice issue. This policy underscores what we all know to be true: we cannot arrest or incarcerate our way out of the drug problem.<\/p>\n

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Editor's Note: This blog post is cross-posted from the ONDCP Blog. The President has outlined his vision of an America built to last—where an educated, skilled workforce has the knowledge, energy and expertise to compete in the global marketplace. Yet–for far too many Americans–that vision is limited by drug use, which not only diminishes the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}