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26 Feb From Criminal to Clinical | Part 2, Rethinking Addiction

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By Nathan Grounds In our previous blog post, we gave a cursory summary of the War on Drugs and revealed its failure to curb the American drug epidemic. In this post we’ll discuss the modern approach to addiction, which holds great potential in actually helping people...

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26 Feb From Criminal to Clinical | Part 1, Mission Failure: Why the War on Drugs Needs a New Strategy

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By Nathan Grounds I was 7 years old when Toy Story hit theaters. Although I was old enough to know better, the portrayal of walking, talking toys reinvigorated my imagination. I soon found myself speaking to my toys and keeping them on clean, open shelves (rather...

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