DrugSense

The Peninsula Clarion, 05 Sep 2010 – Rain muddied the driveway leading to the property of Dean Scroggins, weeks after the Brendan McGee shooting. Rain filled wheel marks scarred the dirt path amid the remnants of a shattered gate. Rain pattered down on the junked cars strewn about the lot. Tires had been laid out at the edge of the property to ward off uninvited guests. During a temperate weekend, Island Lake reflected sunlight onto resident Rita Davenport’s storage shed. The elderly Davenport stared across her property, clear of debris, at the waterside structure 20 miles from Scroggin’s place in Nikiski.

The Peninsula Clarion, 05 Sep 2010 – Rain muddied the driveway leading to the property of Dean Scroggins, weeks after the Brendan McGee shooting. Rain filled wheel marks scarred the dirt path amid the remnants of a shattered gate. Rain pattered down on the junked cars strewn about the lot. Tires had been laid out at the edge of the property to ward off uninvited guests. During a temperate weekend, Island Lake reflected sunlight onto resident Rita Davenport’s storage shed. The elderly Davenport stared across her property, clear of debris, at the waterside structure 20 miles from Scroggin’s place in Nikiski.

The Peninsula Clarion, 05 Sep 2010 – Rain muddied the driveway leading to the property of Dean Scroggins, weeks after the Brendan McGee shooting. Rain filled wheel marks scarred the dirt path amid the remnants of a shattered gate. Rain pattered down on the junked cars strewn about the lot. Tires had been laid out at the edge of the property to ward off uninvited guests. During a temperate weekend, Island Lake reflected sunlight onto resident Rita Davenport’s storage shed. The elderly Davenport stared across her property, clear of debris, at the waterside structure 20 miles from Scroggin’s place in Nikiski.

The Peninsula Clarion, 05 Sep 2010 – Rain muddied the driveway leading to the property of Dean Scroggins, weeks after the Brendan McGee shooting. Rain filled wheel marks scarred the dirt path amid the remnants of a shattered gate. Rain pattered down on the junked cars strewn about the lot. Tires had been laid out at the edge of the property to ward off uninvited guests. During a temperate weekend, Island Lake reflected sunlight onto resident Rita Davenport’s storage shed. The elderly Davenport stared across her property, clear of debris, at the waterside structure 20 miles from Scroggin’s place in Nikiski.

Juneau Empire, 28 Jul 2010 – I’m writing about Bill Dillon’s outstanding column: "Losing the word war" The war on drugs is just a metaphor. A metaphor that has transformed the United States into the most incarcerated nation in the history of human civilization.

Juneau Empire, 28 Jul 2010 – I’m writing about Bill Dillon’s outstanding column: "Losing the word war" The war on drugs is just a metaphor. A metaphor that has transformed the United States into the most incarcerated nation in the history of human civilization.

Juneau Empire, 28 Jul 2010 – I’m writing about Bill Dillon’s outstanding column: "Losing the word war" The war on drugs is just a metaphor. A metaphor that has transformed the United States into the most incarcerated nation in the history of human civilization.

Juneau Empire, 28 Jul 2010 – I’m writing about Bill Dillon’s outstanding column: "Losing the word war" The war on drugs is just a metaphor. A metaphor that has transformed the United States into the most incarcerated nation in the history of human civilization.

Juneau Empire, 22 Jul 2010 – Leonard Pitts Jr. had an excellent editorial entitled "Battle of words in War on Drugs" in the July 19 Juneau Empire. In it, he points out that we have spent untold billions of dollars, ruined untold millions of lives and racked up the highest incarceration rate in the world to fight drug use and he concludes that the War on Drugs is a failure. To help clarify just why it is such a failure I’d like to expand on his thinking about the battle of words a bit. In order to survive as a congruent civilization, all cultures must determine how they will categorize the human behaviors of its members and thereby develop social mores, regulations, laws, rules and social expectations which help to make life more predictable and minimize social chaos. The primary behavioral categories are good, bad, sick, stupid, and crazy. Thus social means are developed to reward the good, punish the bad, cure the sick, educate the stupid, and contain the crazy.