March 17, 2014
Lowering the Deadly Cost of Drug Abuse
Introduction
A user gets ready to shoot heroin in St. Johnsbury, Vt. Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesAs even quaint New England towns deal with desperate residents chasing their next hit of heroin, pain killers or other hard drugs, and with overdose deaths increasing, officials trying to stem drug abuse have begun to focus more on treatment, rather than punishment.
With more people seeing law enforcement’s war on drugs as a failure, what are the best, or boldest, ways that experts around the world have proposed to take care of the problem?
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