Word: antidrug
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...show that serious crime plunged 10 percent in the first half of 1999, the largest drop in the 1990s. Those rates include rape, murder, aggravated assault and burglaries. And as if that's not enough to put a smile on Bill Bennett's face, new numbers from the private antidrug group Partnership for a Drug Free America show that drug use among teens aged 13 to 18 declined or leveled off from 1997 to 1999. That includes experimental and regular use of marijuana, crack and cocaine...
...hard to say which agency will be more self-satisfied over these figures. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America is citing its antidrug campaigns (think "Just Say No") as a major factor in the new age of abstention, claiming that drugs are shedding that pesky veneer of "coolness." Attorney General Janet Reno is applauding the Clinton administration for putting more cops on the street and stepping up antigun campaigns. It's probably more complicated than either of these explanations would suggest, and there will be a rash of analyses; some will point to the rising rates of incarcerations, some...
...fact, we were attracted to the school because it was...well, remarkably average. Curiously enough, given its serene and unnewsworthy nature, Webster Groves has been the subject of inordinate national attention over the years--happily so in 1996, when President Clinton came to honor the school's antidrug efforts, less happily in 1965, when a CBS News team, led by producer Arthur Barron and renowned correspondent Charles Kuralt, arrived to film Sixteen in Webster Groves, a one-hour documentary about the town and its high school-age adolescents...
...frightened many religious people. In Employment Division v. Smith, Scalia said religious claims cannot be used to justify violating laws as long as those laws apply to everyone of every faith, neutrally. In the case at hand, Scalia wrote that Native Americans do not have the right to break antidrug laws even though peyote use is part of some Indian faiths...
...illegal substance in the month before the survey, in contrast to 30.7% last year. While the report probably underestimates actual drug use, officials view the drop, along with relatively steady rates of drug use over the past few years, as a sign that teens are beginning to heed antidrug messages...