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Article: DRUG PROGRAMS WITH SPECIFICS THAT DON'T MATCH GOALS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 28, 1989
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Thomas Oliphant is a Globe columnist.
WASHINGTON - It is emotionally and politically helpful to
portray drug dealers as vermin feeding off the weakness and illness
of the young.
It is more useful to see them as largely rational, evil people
who have responded rationally to the lurches of federal law
enforcement policy in the 1980s. That policy, rivaled only by
Prohibition 60 years ago in its uselessness, is not about to be
reversed by President Bush. The mindless pursuit of the chimera of
interdiction will continue at the expense of the education of
potential addicts and the treatment of actual ones.
The just-announced prime target of drug czar William Bennett
for his program ...