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• 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
• The war on drugs makes a comeback in progressive areas.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 Mar. 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
• 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
• In Monday’s case, the man appeared to be either high on drugs or in mental crisis, witnesses said.
  — Agreen, oregonlive, 8 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The species had the virtue of being slightly nicer (less likely to bite handlers) and smaller (saving money on drugs in preclinical studies) than the rhesus macaque.
  — Erika Fry, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2024
• In one experiment, researchers put patients who’d already detoxed back on drugs.
  — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2023
• But Katie Ferguson had recently contacted Aviles to get her and take her to Cody after relapsing on drugs, the complaint said.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• As Colombia has been a frontline in the global war on drugs for the last fifty years, farmers have often been on the receiving end of repressive drug policies from lawmakers.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 24 July 2023
• The city plans to use its first equity grant to help people adversely affected by the war on drugs with money for permits, site searches and other hurdles.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2023
• On top of these dynamics, add President Richard Nixon’s war on drugs, which led to longer sentences and higher fines, and the explosive growth of mass incarceration.
  — Courtney E. Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Feb. 2024
• Some of the taxes from legal weed sales are also being used for a reinvestment fund that's supposed to be used to support communities that have been most affected by the war on drugs.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• The former justice secretary was jailed in 2017, after initiating a Senate probe into Duterte’s war on drugs, which has left tens of thousands dead.
  — Regine Cabato, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• Pharmaceutical companies have spent hundreds of million of dollars on drugs that seek to either clear or prevent the growth of the abnormal plaques and tangles that form in the brains of patients.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
• The Diabetes Patient Advocacy Coalition estimates patients may save up to $1,000 a year on drugs.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024