https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq War on drugs en-us 2018-01-19 20:01:35 UTC 2025-11-20 17:00:50 UTC hello@padlet.com 3194995 https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/240353827 People become addicts because they are stressed or in pain. 

Source: https://www.history.com/topics/the-war-on-drugs]]> 2018-03-09 20:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/240353827 3194995 https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/240356457 An African American addict in 1939 was put on trial and imprisoned. When she got to prison, she was abused, even though she had liver cancer. She went into heroin withdrawal and eventually dies.]]> 2018-03-09 20:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/240356457 3194995 https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/240357869 A woman named Marcia Powell, who was imprisoned for having meth, was put in a cage in the dessert and literally cooked to death in the heat. ]]> 2018-03-09 20:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/240357869 3194995 https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/240358423 opioids killed more Americans in 2016 than the entire 19-year Vietnam War and the AIDS crisis.

Source: https://www.history.com/topics/the-war-on-drugs]]> 2018-03-09 20:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/240358423 3194995 https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/241588840 United States has spent billions of dollars on military, law enforcement, and foreign aid initiatives in an effort to keep drugs off American streets]]> 2018-03-13 19:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/241588840 3194995 https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/241589725 In 1971, president Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs, to control the amount of drugs in America. ]]> 2018-03-13 19:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/241589725 3194995 https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/241590151 Regulation on drugs that are considered dangerous and/or addictive.

Source:  https://www.history.com/topics/the-war-on-drugs]]> 2018-03-13 19:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/241590151 3194995 https://padlet.com/3194995/5xkycqbxe5sq/wish/249348990 What is the definition of the War on Drugs? 

a government-led initiative that aims to stop illegal drug use, distribution and trade by increasing and enforcing penalties for offenders.

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