... many, the only support systems available are those provided by the government. This is one of many reasons as to why it is so dangerous that San Francisco has proposed to cut thirty seven and a half million dollars from its day treatment programs. The budget cuts would affect "hundreds if not thousands of ... in the future. Second is that the removal of these programs means that a large number of jobs will be lost across the country. For example, San Francisco is faced with a large budget deficit and has decided to cut thirty seven billion from the Health Department's budget. "And with...

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... Duke and Albert Gross argue that those who do not use under prohibition will not use under legalization. Duke is a law professor at Yale University, and Gross is a lawyer from San Diego, California. They are greatly respected advocates for legalization, their greatest fame stemming from their co-authored book, America's Longest War. The key argument made by advocates Duke and Gross ... as illegal when, as they claim, narcotics are no more harmful than legalized drugs. Benson B. Roe, professor emeritus and former chair of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of California at San Fran...

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... Duke and Albert Gross argue that those who do not use under prohibition will not use under legalization. Duke is a law professor at Yale University, and Gross is a lawyer from San Diego, California. They are greatly respected advocates for legalization, their greatest fame stemming from their co-authored book, America's Longest War. The key argument made by advocates Duke and Gross ... as illegal when, as they claim, narcotics are no more harmful than legalized drugs. Benson B. Roe, professor emeritus and former chair of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of California at San Fran...

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... constantly warned about health dangers in cigarettes. Although smokers constitute the majority of people who suffer from cigarettes, they are not the only ones ailing from cigarette smoke. As UC San Francisco scientist and author Stanton Glantz estimates in Shari Roan's article, the amount of second-hand smoke inhaled by the typical nonsmoker is equivalent to one cigarette smoked per day. Even ... of cigarettes the United States government denies the right the fifth amendment gave its citizens, ...nor be deprived of life, liberty...A report published from the Cardiovascular Research Ins...

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... is a major contention of the controversy. Those who disagree with SEPs feel that state and local tax dollars are being wasted on drug addicts. According to researchers at UC at San Francisco, Needle exchange programs can "prevent significant numbers of [HIV] infections among clients of the programs, their drug and sex partners and their offspring. In almost all cases, the cost per ... ...

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... places such as parks, or on public transportation, as well needles in trashcans that must be handled manually, all have the potential to infect. Fred Dillon, Policy Director at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, compares the costs of syringes to HIV treatment as fifteen cents for a syringe at a pharmacy and $34,000 a year to treat an individual infected with HIV ("Advocates"). Another ... ...

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... in this that the prohibition of marijuana is most harmful to the American public. Graham Boyd, an attorney representing a group of plaintiffs including eleven prominent cancer and AIDS physicians in San Francisco presented to a federal judge on Friday, April 11, 1997 the following statement: "The federal government has issued broad threats against physicians who might recommend marijuana to some of their seriously ... ...

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... of them on their own volition saying, "Help me, I want to stop smoking pot. It is causing me these problems I want to stop and I can't stop." At our program in San Francisco, we now have about one hundred patients every month who are in treatment specifically for marijuana addiction. So many who claim that marijuana is harmless have to sit down and ... ...

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... the United States. The problems of addiction were recognized gradually. Legal measures against drug abuse in the United States were first established in 1875, when opium dens were outlawed in San Francisco. The first national drug law was the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906, which required accurate labeling of patent medicines containing opium and certain other drugs. In 1914 the ... ...

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