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March 12, 2009

EU Report Faults Global Strategy on Drugs
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Kerlikowske’s nomination comes as the US takes part in a UN conference
in Vienna on setting a global drugs strategy for the next decade. A new
European Commission report says the previous decade’s strategy has been
a failure. The US has been widely criticized for its longtime resistance
to decriminalization and supporting treatment-based alternatives.



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