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DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY NO? The anti-drug program DARE is taught in 75% of U.S. school districts, yet a new study from the University of Kentucky indicates that it has no long-term effect on kids' use of illegal drugs. In interviews with those who completed DARE in 1988, 46% admitted to smoking marijuana and 24% to taking other drugs within the past year. Researchers say programs would be more effective if they focused on kids most at risk...
Messy stuff, cocaine ? particularly when you?re fighting a war against it. Even as Colonel James Hiett headed up U.S. anti-drug efforts in Colombia, his wife is reported to have been mailing packages of the stuff to New York from a U.S. Army base in Bogota. Laurie Anne Hiett surrendered to law enforcement officers in New York Thursday, after being charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Hiett was served with an arrest warrant in June after police intercepted an envelope mailed by her, which contained 2.7 pounds of cocaine. She reportedly told investigators that she had mailed six packages...
...past. The awkward kids aren't just smiling inappropriately during science-lab frog dissections. Some high schools have white supremacist cliques. Then there are groups like the Straight Edge, a presence at schools like Salt Lake City's Kearns High School. They are puritanical punkers who are anti-drug, anti-alcohol, and anti-tobacco--and they are violent. If you smoke or drink in their presence, some Straight Edgers will attack you with a baseball...
This is confirmed by even the most conservative estimates of drug use, production and trafficking: the State Department estimates that cocaine production throughout Latin America has increased by 11.7 percent since 1988, and opium production has doubled, even though U.S. government funding for anti-drug efforts has increased by more than 150 percent...
...response to a question about his conviction for cocaine possession in 1990, Barry called himself "a very credible spokesperson for the anti-crime and anti-drug movement...