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General Barry R. McCaffrey, director of the White House Office of National Drug Policy, told an invited audience at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) yesterday that although successes have been made in the campaign against drugs, the problem remains great...
...McCaffrey, whose tenure as the "national drug czar" began in 1996, focused his speech on the changes in attitude that the country must go through in continuing to combat drugs. He said he was concerned by the oft-used metaphor of a "war on drugs...
...there's a war, we can win the war. There is an enemy, but in this case the enemy is your mother, your buddy," McCaffrey said...
...think of it as a cancer, we will focus on prevention," McCaffrey explained...
...point in his speech, McCaffrey rhetorically asked why the drug question should not be ignored, why it can't simply be classified as a minority problem, a poor problem or just someone else's problem. He quickly answered the question himself, saying that even if abusers of illegal drugs make up only 6 percent of US society, drugs account for many of society's troubles...