The top five things (from a list of 16) that the public believes would improve people's health a great deal are: improving access to affordable healthy food (57 %),
reducing illegal drug use (54 %), reducing air, water, or chemical pollution (52 %), increasing access to high - quality health care (52 %), and improving the economy and the availability of jobs (49 %).
Not exact matches
The benefits of such a system would be to «dry up
illegal black markets,»
reduce the burden on law enforcement and
use the cannabis tax to finance
drug prevention, education and rehabilitation.
Burning the
drugs prevents the medications from entering landfills, being disposed of by flushing the pills down the toilet, prevents illicit and
illegal use as well as
reduces the risk of accidental poisoning of our children and elderly.
Intensive parenting and health education provided in homes of pregnant American Indian teens
reduced the mothers»
illegal drug use, depression and behavior problems, and set their young children on track to meet behavioral and emotional milestones they may have otherwise missed.
The vast majority of Americans share a desire to be rid of
illegal drugs, and I am committed to
reducing drug use and its destructive consequences.
Key actions of
Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery include: • Introduction of a pilot supervised injecting facility in Dublin's city centre; • Establishment of a Working Group to examine alternative approaches to the possession for personal
use of small quantities of
illegal drugs; • Funding for a programme to promote community awareness of alcohol - related harm; • A new targeted youth services scheme for young people at risk of substance misuse in socially and economically disadvantaged communities; • Expansion of
drug and alcohol addiction services, including residential services; • Recruitment of 4 Clinical Nurse Specialists and 2 Young Persons Counsellors to complement HSE multi-disciplinary teams for under 18s; • Recruitment of 7 additional
drug - liaison midwives to support pregnant women with alcohol dependency; • Establishment of a Working Group to explore ways of improving progression options for people exiting treatment, prison or community employment schemes, with a view to developing a new programme of supported care and employment.