Word: illicitness
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...report emphasized the College’s delicate balance between its legal mandate to prevent the use of illicit substances and its responsibility to student health...
Most colleges offer substance-abuse prevention programs that warn about the dangers of binge drinking and illicit drugs. Many urge students who develop chemical dependencies to leave school and get treatment. But when those former abusers straighten themselves out and try to finish their education, they often encounter the same social situations that got them into trouble in the first place. Now a small but growing number of colleges are setting up on-campus recovery programs, and a few even have housing specifically for former substance abusers. Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J., introduced the first recovery dorm...
...including around 700 kg in 2000 alone. The historic shortage that followed, the report says, "provided the first opportunity in many decades to see whether supply and enforcement were in any way related." The link has been widely questioned: do busts make any difference on the street? Many illicit drug experts also argue that treatment is more effective than law enforcement efforts, and that attempts to push up the price by cutting supply may force addicts into more crime to fund their habit. But in what it claims is the first study of its kind, the ANU has found that...
...growing well before 2000, the post-drought switch to different drugs has many health professionals and drug agencies deeply worried. Amphetamine abuse in particular has severe side effects, including aggression and psychosis. No one knows the full extent of the post-drought migration from heroin to other illicit drugs. The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre has examined this trend, but its long-awaited report has yet to be made public. Treatment admissions suggest many users have tried to break their habits since heroin supply fell, but drug workers see plenty of others who inject stimulants instead. "Our clients...
...think you give timelines to dictators." GEORGE W. BUSH, on dealing with the illicit nuclear-weapons programs of the Iranian and North Korean regimes...