Trigger Warning: If addiction and drugs are not suitable topics for you and would negatively impact your mental health for any reason please skip this episode; your health comes first. 

We discuss the impact of supervised injection clinics and the war on drugs in the United States. These opinions are wholly our own; we are not experts. 

sources 

https://www.livescience.com/33795-effective.html

https://www.governing.com/columns/washington-watch/gov-dare-drug-programs.html

https://www.americanexperiment.org/article/is-dare-doing-kids-more-harm/

https://www.history.com/news/americas-war-on-drugs-was-designed-to-fail-so-why-is-it-being-revived-now

https://www.criminaljusticeprograms.com/articles/war-on-drugs-history-and-facts/

https://hrf.org/research_posts/the-human-rights-cost-of-the-war-on-drugs/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/21/canada-opioid-crisis-supervised-drug-injection-sites

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/07/645609248/whats-the-evidence-that-supervised-drug-injection-sites-save-lives

https://alcoholrehab.com/addiction-recovery/beating-the-relapse-statistics/

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/how-addiction-hijacks-the-brain

https://teens.drugabuse.gov/drug-facts/brain-and-addiction

https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/brain-health/science-says-addiction-a-chronic-disease-not-a-moral-failing

https://www.centeronaddiction.org/what-addiction/addiction-disease