"Health & Medical News"

Antonio Maria Costa, the United Nations’ top anti-drug official, addressed the annual Drug Policy Reform Conference in New Orleans this week, sponsored by the Drug Policy Alliance.

Reason reported Dec. 6 that Costa was the highest-profile supporter of the “war on drugs” to ever appear at the conference, which largely skews toward drug decriminalization, harm reduction, and legalization.

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Health care reform is at the top of California’s agenda, and everyone agrees the system is broken.  It’s harder to know which problems are the most important, and easy to lose sight of what’s really at stake in the abstract policy debates.  That’s why CALPIRG recently conducted an email survey of 575 of our members, to find out what kind of reforms are most important to them, and gather their stories about the health care system.  
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