Drug Addiction and Drug Abuse

In the early ’70s, the New York State implements a policy of zero tolerance against drugs. The most repressive of all the U.S.  Mere possession of an illegal substance was punishable by imprisonment up to 25 years for heroin. At the time, using a speech warrior and authoritarian, they wanted above all to obtain the support of public opinion instead of listening to what had to tell the players on the field. They had already noted the futility of such a crackdown and sentenced relentless police to consumers. One way they think, to maintain the cycle of violence, promoting underground while wasting many resources. Alarmed by this turn of events, the National Police and Criminal Justice ordered an investigation.

The report filed and signed by the hands of researchers and Gropper Richardson would be a very compromising . Not only the punitive measures had not produced the desired results, but the bill for taxpayers was more than 100 million dollars. Add to that a justice system clogged and paralyzed by attorneys who judged the sentences to their clients far too severe. It took until 1976 to see the government in New York back in the record and acknowledge his mistakes. Of course, it is here that a drop in the ocean because every day millions of people from all strata of society are the direct victims of this war that generates multiple disorders.