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Ending the “Drug War” | Solving the Drug Problem: The Public Health Approach

steven_jonas_headshotNew York Academy of Medicine Fellow Dr. Steven Jonas will present his new book, Ending the “Drug War”—Solving the Drug Problem and speak on the need for a public health approach to drug use.

The “Drug War” is an expensive failure. The Drug Problem, resulting from the use of the Recreational Mood Altering Drugs (RMADs), is real. But it is a unity, not, as it is currently presented through the lens of the “licit/illicit” dichotomy, a duality. That unity, figuratively and literally, begins with the use of tobacco products and alcoholic beverages. A public health-based approach, the National Smoking Cessation Program, has met with great success in dealing with the number one RMAD killer, without locking up one cigarette smoker. As proposed in the book, the Public Health Approach to the Drug Problem, for dealing with the harmful use of all the RMADs, is modeled on it. If it were to be implemented, the “Drug War” could be brought to a swift end.











When: Thu., Sep. 15, 2016 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Where: The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Ave.
212-822-7200
Price: Free
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steven_jonas_headshotNew York Academy of Medicine Fellow Dr. Steven Jonas will present his new book, Ending the “Drug War”—Solving the Drug Problem and speak on the need for a public health approach to drug use.

The “Drug War” is an expensive failure. The Drug Problem, resulting from the use of the Recreational Mood Altering Drugs (RMADs), is real. But it is a unity, not, as it is currently presented through the lens of the “licit/illicit” dichotomy, a duality. That unity, figuratively and literally, begins with the use of tobacco products and alcoholic beverages. A public health-based approach, the National Smoking Cessation Program, has met with great success in dealing with the number one RMAD killer, without locking up one cigarette smoker. As proposed in the book, the Public Health Approach to the Drug Problem, for dealing with the harmful use of all the RMADs, is modeled on it. If it were to be implemented, the “Drug War” could be brought to a swift end.

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