Sentence examples for lessen drug from inspiring English sources

Our experiment with alcohol should have taught us that prohibition wastes money, creates violence and corruption, and fails to lessen drug use.

During my 17 years with the New York Police Department and 18 years as police chief of Kansas City, Missouri, and San Jose, California, I found that mandatory drug sentences do not lessen drug use, but they do destroy families and neighbourhoods, and push drug users into lives as career criminals.

You've probably heard that mentor programs help decrease youth violence, lessen drug abuse, reduce the high school dropout rate, and help send thousands of young people to college each year.

Investigators are charged with demonstrating that the addition of a study drug is more effective than usual care with steroids and current cytotoxic agents with respect to controlling disease, avoiding relapses, or lessening drug toxicity [ 23].

Though any attempt to lessen a drug's impact must always be admired.

He also found that policies aimed at preventing new users and treating current users both help lessen a drug's appeal.

Though any attempt to lessen a drug's impact must always be admired, their supplement regimes before and after taking MDMA often appear more complicated than actually knocking up some homemade pills in the bath.

He said residents in those neighborhoods had reported a lessening of drug and gang activity, declines in public drinking, loitering and disorder in the schools and streets that were cleaner and had fewer abandoned buildings and cars.

Furthermore, nanoencapsulation was observed to lessen the adverse drug interactions between anti-retroviral and anti- M. avium drugs.

Still left hanging are proposals to lessen penalties for drug convictions, improve women's health care and crack down on auto insurance fraud.

And the gridlock caused by the school battle kept them from most of the other big items on their to-do list: lessening Rockefeller-era drug sentences they all agree are too harsh, overhauling an economic development program they all want to see changed, or passing new ethics laws to tighten regulations on the state's $100 million lobbying industry.