Decriminalizing Illicit Drug Use

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Across
  1. 3. (2 words) worsened by punishments that targeted people of color at an alarming rate
  2. 4. (2 words) use of prescription medication to treat severe pain
  3. 6. (2 words) the amount of money that has been spent carrying out the War on Drugs
  4. 7. (2 words) a kind of services that can decrease the negative impacts of drugs on individuals without punishing them with criminal charges
  5. 9. (2 words) health initiative providing sterile needles and disposing of used ones to prevent the spread of infection
  6. 10. virus that is commonly spread through bodily fluids by sharing drug injection equipment
  7. 11. the process of making drug-use socially acceptable and changing legal landscapes
  8. 13. strategy used by law-enforcement to direct individuals away from criminal processing and towards community/health/education resources
  9. 14. drugs laced with this pose extreme health risks and death for users
Down
  1. 1. (2 words) supervised injection sites whose aim is to reduce overdose deaths, spread of infection, and public drug-use
  2. 2. (3 words) set of policies introduced by President Nixon in 1968
  3. 5. 13 year long period in the U.S. when the production and sale of alcohol was illegal, and whose logic is still applied today to Illicit drugs
  4. 8. the process of reducing or fully eliminating the criminal punishments associated with using illegal drugs
  5. 12. (2 words) it is believed that decriminalization will lead to these increasing