1.0 link 23300 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/meth-debunking-the-debunk_b_23300.html Drug policy expert Mark Kleiman recently took Ryan King and the Sentencing Project to task for their report [pdf] compiling the actually available numbers documenting the extent of the "methamphetamine epidemic." While I highly respect Kleiman's work (disclosure: he blurbed my most recent book), this is an area where we disagree. Media criticism may not, as he says, be a substitute for studying the actual problem-- but without it, I believe improving drug policy and getting better data...

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