Christie: War on Drugs a ‘failure’…
Christie: War on Drugs a ‘failure’… – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called the war on drugs a “failure” during a speech at the Washington, DC-based Brookings Institution on Monday, and tied his objection to the decades-long campaign to his anti-abortion stance. According to Christie, drug offenders in New Jersey are sent “back out on the street after their time of incarceration” with “no treatment.” He said this was the reason “why recidivism rates go up and why they don’t get better.” “For all first-time non-violent drug offenders, we have to make drug treatment mandatory,” Christie said. “Because, if you’re pro-life, as I am, you can’t be pro-life just in the womb. Every life is precious, and every one of God’s creatures can be redeemed, but they won’t be if we ignore them.” “We have the obligation to understand that addiction is a disease and that we need to give people a chance to overcome that disease and restore dignity and meaning to their lives,” he added. Christie also used his time to compare Obamacare’s rules governing Medicaid amounted to “extortion,” and said he was glad that that provision was struck down by the Supreme Court. “I was glad that the Supreme Court ruled that extortion is still illegal in America,” he said. “And that’s a relief because Obamacare on Medicaid to the states was extortion. It essentially said, you expand your program to where we tell you, and if you don’t, we’re taking all the rest of your money away. Well that’s extortion. It was in a whole bunch of nice words in the …
From Financing to Fevers: Lessons of an Antimalarial Subsidy Program
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1Research Scholar, Princeton University, and Director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Washington, DC 20036, USA. 2Professor of Economics … In 2001, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that countries use …
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Tuesday's Sports Transactions
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COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE_Suspended minor league free agent OF Joey Gathright 50 games, without pay, for violating the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. … MLS_Fined Portland owner Merritt Paulson $ 25,000 for inappropriate conduct …
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Synribo Approve for Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
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Washington, D.C. – infoZine – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Synribo (omacetaxine mepesuccinate) to treat adults with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a blood and bone marrow disease. An estimated 5,430 … Synribo is approved under …
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Use of antipsychotic drugs up sharply among poor children in Kentucky
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The study also revealed wide geographical variances in prescriptions for drugs meant to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Poor children in Western Kentucky received much larger quantities of ADHD drugs than their counterparts in …
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