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Policy focused on punishing drug dealers may hurt drug users trying to quit

Published May 13, 2025

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 quotes David Herzberg in an article about the impacts of President Trump’s drug policy on access to treatment and prevention services for addiction. Herzberg said Trump’s almost single-minded linking of the nation’s drug problems with border issues harks back to late 19th-century America, when the government associated opium dens with Chinese immigrants. Then as now, Herzberg said, political conservatives found that targeting foreign drug suppliers was a muscular means of advancing broader agendas. Herzberg said that legislators who fight these cuts are at risk for being seen as soft on crime. “If politicians are going to stick their necks out for them, I would be shocked,” Herzberg said.

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Policy focused on punishing drug dealers may hurt drug users trying to quit
5/13/25

The New York Times quotes David Herzberg in an article about the impacts of President Trump’s drug policy on access to treatment and prevention services for addiction. 

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