Thoughts on the Drug War
Last month, the Associated Press (AP) dropped the bombshell that the “War on Drugs” has cost the United States one trillion dollars. That’s right: a trillion dollars. It’s been being fought for four decades and now is verging on the most expensive and longest running war in U.S. history. And there’s a growing sense that [...]
Opiate Drug Use Not just a Teenage Problem
Nassau and Suffolk County have undertaken a new initiative to fight teenage heroin use by targeting enforcement on the Queens and Brooklyn borders in an effort to keep heroin out of Long Island. The drug problem is bigger than that, however, as a recent arrest in Nassau County highlights. Pharmacist Robert Ciskanik was arrested for [...]