Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most shocking deficiencies in the fight against drugs is that addicts who want to kick their habits often must wait months before being admitted to a rehabilitation center, if they can find one at all. Legalization, say advocates, might at last give governments the revenue to fund rehabilitation and treatment adequately...
...drug legalization, even if it is a misguided approach, has pointed out a real and serious fault in current policy. It is heavily unbalanced in favor of ineffective attempts to cut the supply through police action, while neglecting potentially more effective efforts to reduce demand through education and treatment. Says Minneapolis Mayor Donald Fraser: "Personally, I'm not willing to say drugs should be decriminalized. But investing large amounts of money to interdict supply obviously is not working. We've spent over $300,000 in the past few months in police overtime alone raiding crack houses. We've brought...
...significant one. It reflects the widespread and understandable dismay over antidrug efforts that have gone to such discomforting lengths as to call in the military without noticeably making a dent in the crime and abuse problems. And it could turn attention to the need for more effective treatment and education efforts, rather than merely more election-year frenzy and posturing...
DESCRIPTION: Dollar cost of crime, treatment and lost productivity related to drugs and alcohol...
...Discovery Channel and several other cable networks. Time Inc., the parent of the second largest cable operator, American Television & Communications Corp., also has a piece of Turner's company and owns two of the largest pay-cable networks, HBO and Cinemax. Critics charge that cable operators give preferential treatment to networks in which they have a financial stake, at the expense of other, equally deserving channels...