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Why it's important to just say no to bad drug policy

  • Written by Margie Skeer, Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University
imageAttorney General Jeff SessionsAP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

In all the discussions about the proposed health care law, it was easy to overlook a statement made by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on March 15: “I think we have too much of a tolerance for drug use – psychologically, politically, morally… We need to say, as Nancy Reagan...

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