Chasing the Scream

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As I held up in the lazy neon-lit traditions line at JFK, I attempted to recall

exactly when the war on drugs began. In some obscure manner, I had a feeling that it

more likely than not been with Richard Nixon during the 1970s, when the expression was first

broadly utilized. Or on the other hand was it with Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, when “Simply Say No”

appeared to turn into the second national hymn?

Be that as it may, when I began to go around New York City talking with specialists on

tranquilize strategy, I started to get a feeling that this entire story had, actually, started long

previously. The promise to wage “steady fighting”

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on drugs was, I discovered, first

made during the 1930s, by a man who has been generally overlooked today—yet he did

more than some other individual to make the medication world we presently live in.