“I am a very strong believer that the path we have taken in the United States in the so-called war on drugs has been so heavy in emphasizing incarceration that it has been counterproductive. You have young people who did not engage in violence who get very long penalties, who get placed in prison and then are rendered economically unemployable, are almost pushed into the underground economy, learn crime more effectively in prison — families are devastated. So it’s been very unproductive.”- Barack Obama; 2015

It is the longest war in the history of the world, and so it continues. President after president, Administration after administration have adopted a plethora of policies and strategies to curb the increasing epidemic of drug abuse, Addiction and death in the United States.… Read the rest