Both UK and USA Need Changes in Their Drug Policies, the Lancet Reports
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Both UK And USA Need Changes In Their Drug Policies, The Lancet Reports
US President Barak Obama’s 5-year National Drug Control Strategy, which takes a more balanced approach to the challenges, and stresses prevention and treatment as well as law enforcement is welcomed in an Editorial in this week’s Lancet (a peer-reviewed academic medical journal). In linked Correspondence, UK experts from the Drug Policy Commission (UK) summarize what they propose is needed to …
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