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• That initiative is about going back to the 1980s and the war on drugs.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 16 Aug. 2024
• Today’s great reads A movie star, a suicide and a nation’s war on drugs.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2024
• The first problem with the war on drugs is the idea of what exactly constitutes a drug.
  — Arun A.k., Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Everyone else in the garage was asleep or nodding out on drugs.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• High drug costs have long been one of Americans’ largest health care headaches, and spending on drugs is on the rise.
  — Tami Luhby, CNN, 17 Aug. 2023
• Karen Weintraub: President Biden has tried to put a cap on drugs.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
• North Carolina’s crusade against hemp is not the only front in this war on drugs.
  — Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
• The war on drugs makes a comeback in progressive areas.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Weiss' office plans to use the laptop to demonstrate that Biden was on drugs around the time of his gun purchase in October 2018.
  — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 22 May 2024
• Instead, it’s given us the war on drugs and the highest incarceration rate in the world.
  — Ana Zamora, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2024
• Three decades ago California was over on the right with the war on drugs and tough three-strikes sentencing for repeat felons.
  — George Skelton, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024
• Those who spend the most on drugs will probably save a few thousand dollars a year, according to KFF.
  — David Leonhardt, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• According to Norton’s book, rumors in town insisted that Lund was on drugs or ran off with a boyfriend to start a new life.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2023
• In such a climate, politicians are under pressure to appear tough on drugs.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
• He is also wanted on drugs and weapons charges in Arkansas, the sheriff's office said.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 4 Nov. 2023
• There’s concern that bringing back criminal penalties is going back to the war on drugs.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2024
• If not the only nation that doesn’t negotiate prices on drugs.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 30 Aug. 2023
• That’s been an ongoing pattern since the war on drugs in the 80s and 90s—that’s been the entry point to help create this idea that there are mothers who are harming their babies.
  — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
• In Monday’s case, the man appeared to be either high on drugs or in mental crisis, witnesses said.
  — Agreen, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• In 2017, Waller nearly lost his life after overdosing on drugs laced with fentanyl.
  — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 10 June 2024
• Yet Americans are charged a premium on drugs and healthcare services that others do not have to pay.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• First used in the war on drugs against kingpins, the practice has since become dubious and discredited.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2024
• Trump continued, making unfounded claims that Biden was on drugs during his State of the Union address.
  — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 20 June 2024
• Scientists are working on drugs that could wipe out bone marrow without the side effects of chemo, but that research is in early stages.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• Brunson now sees her mother’s embrace of a faith with strict prohibitions on drugs as a way of seeking safety.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• Included with New York’s legalization of weed in 2021 was a central promise to give back to communities that were most harmed by the war on drugs.
  — Ashley Southall, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Tension between the two intensified when Stause accused Young of being on drugs later in the season.
  — Staff Author, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• McBride noted that Hernandez was on drugs and had ignored police commands.
  — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• In early 2020, Gillum was found by police at a South Beach hotel, accompanied by a man who was suspected to have overdosed on drugs.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 4 May 2023
• Less than 20 percent of Medicare expenditures are on drugs.
  — Brian Blase, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024