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White House Drug Czar Recommends Drug Testing in Schools
Associated Press ^
| Oct. 8, 2003
Posted on 10/08/2003 3:32:41 PM PDT by Wolfie
White House Drug Czar Recommends Drug Testing in Schools
Boston -- President Bush's drug czar told New England governors Wednesday that drug testing in schools would be an effective way to combat what is a growing problem of drug use among young people, especially in the Northeast.
The region's six governors and John Walters, director of the Office of Drug Control Policy, met at Faneuil Hall in an anti-drug summit focusing on New England's heroin epidemic.
New England has more people ages 12 and over dependent on illegal drugs than any other region of the nation, according to Walters.
Heroin as cheap as $4 per bag has made it easier for young people to get hooked, he said.
"This is a tool that will make a difference," Walters said of drug testing of school children. "It's time has come."
New England has placed a "national face" on the growing heroin problem, said Karen Tandy, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
"It is a big business," Tandy told the governors and the assembled audience. "You might as well be sitting at the border of Colombia in this Northeast region."
High level heroin traffickers are transporting drugs directly to New England bypassing the traditional transport route through New York City, and are marketing heroin directly to children, Tandy said.
"Colombian traffickers have created what is in effect a franchise marketing system," Tandy said.
Tandy and several governors said more federal money is needed to combat the problem.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: addiction; drugtesting; drugwar; johnwalters; teens; wodlist
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To: Wolfie
....After 60 or so years....
Hey youngin's, I am sick and tired of watching billions going down a hole, users going to jail, dead kids in our streets because of this lost war on drugs. We can card kids for beer and smokes but are not adult enough to make these products legal and tax them like beer and smokes and control who purchases them. Are there ways for under aged to buy liquor and ciggs, yes but it is a start. Billions wasted and lives lost are due to this failed war.
I have been thinking about this a long time. Now
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posted on
10/08/2003 3:47:57 PM PDT
by
tall_tex
To: Support Free Republic
The lion is not the thing to put on right now, read all the post about the bears and the tigers. Have you no sensitivity at all?
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posted on
10/08/2003 3:48:25 PM PDT
by
U S Army EOD
(Feeling my age, but wanting to feel older)
To: Wolfie
"Colombian traffickers have created what is in effect a franchise marketing system," Tandy said. Well,, Mr Tandy,,, if you know where its coming from,, seems to me a couple well placed daisy cutters could easily erradicate that problem almost overnight ? hmmmmmmmmm ?
To: Trailerpark Badass
what drugs are they going to test for? painkillers, pot, heroin, coke, vitamins? where does it start and when will it end.
the drug war is a joke, while the DEA and local agencies confiscate $100's of millions of pot the more dangerous hard stuff gets in (because the sellers are more motivated and much more dangerous).
choose you addiction just make sure it isn't pot.
To: Trailerpark Badass
Good point! Cigs cost about $4.50 per pack here in Mass.Maybe it's time to switch addictions.
Massachusetts is so darned liberal is it any wonder the kids are on drugs?
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posted on
10/08/2003 3:51:18 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: vinylsidingman
Yeah, that would do a great job of shifting the suppliers elsewhere.
To: U S Army EOD
The lion is not the thing to put on right now, read all the post about the bears and the tigers. Have you no sensitivity at all? Are you kidding. We cannot look at lions now because two guys got bit? That is a little over the top. What is offensive about lions?
To: contessa machiaveli
Some companies now test for nicotine. Not hard to imagine schools following suit.
To: Wolfie
Add another to the list of reasons to homeschool.
To: Wolfie
Bush better put a muzzle on this guy if he wants to stay in office.
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posted on
10/08/2003 3:53:20 PM PDT
by
microgood
(They will all die......most of them.)
To: tall_tex
Speaking of billions of dollars, I read a statistic the other day that the WOsD currently costs more PER YEAR than the entire conflict in 'Nam.
And why do we work for 5 months a year to pay off our tax bill? The WOsD has a large percentage in that when you count incarceration costs, legal fees, work lost, productivity lost, the number of required LEOs, the required number of jailers, etc. What a total waste of our money, not to mention the number of low level offenders who spend hard time with real criminals and come out just like them.
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posted on
10/08/2003 3:53:28 PM PDT
by
11B3
(Old enough to remember the real America, young enough to fight to bring it back.)
To: microgood
Hell, the last guy was pushing to test chess players.
To: Britton J Wingfield
Definitely not fair is the pieces are moving by themselves.
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posted on
10/08/2003 3:55:03 PM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Wolfie
unless you are playing Battle Chess
To: Wolfie
Heroin as cheap as $4 per bag has made it easier for young people to get hooked...How big is "a bag" of heroin? A Hefty bag?
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posted on
10/08/2003 3:57:02 PM PDT
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: randog
I bet that bag would suddenly be appraised at a lot more than $4 as soon it was siezed by police.
To: Wolfie
White House Drug Czar Recommends Drug Testing in SchoolsField day for the ACLU!
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posted on
10/08/2003 4:01:23 PM PDT
by
Reagan Man
(The few, the proud, the conservatives.)
To: Britton J Wingfield
Would not anyone to have an unfair disadvantage, would we?
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posted on
10/08/2003 4:01:54 PM PDT
by
microgood
(They will all die......most of them.)
To: Wolfie
Let me guess. When they detect that a kid has used drugs they give him the boot right out of school and into a job selling drugs to his former peers. Probably part of another zero tolerance policy.
To: Wolfie
Let me guess. When they detect that a kid has used drugs they give him the boot right out of school and into a job selling drugs to his former peers. Probably part of another zero tolerance policy.
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