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by phs318u 40 days ago
If you look at figure 1 on this CDC page (which looks at deaths rather than overall usage), I’d suggest the numbers are trending the exact opposite to what “winning” the war on drugs would look like.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db474.htm

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I think you are still vastly misunderstanding what the war on drugs concerns. This level of overdose deaths is a problem, but not really what the struggle is really about.
Because we stopped fighting it like 20 years ago.