Yoga as an Adjunct Therapy for Substance Use in Social Work Today Magazine
America has long been engaged in a “war on drugs.” Billions of dollars are spent yearly by U.S. government dealing with the drugs—the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has a budget of over $2 billion, annually. The organization Human Rights Watch has even spoken on the impact of illicit drug use on the sky-high incarceration rates, saying “Drug control policies bear primary responsibility for the quadrupling of the national prison population since 1980 and a soaring incarceration rate, the highest among western democracies….No functioning democracy has ever governed itself with as large a percentage of its adults incarcerated as the United States.”
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