They're at it again! Is the White House addicted to lying? Every time I look at anything the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) puts out, the blatant lies and stupidity make my head spin!
This week's nonsense, distortion, confusion, and propaganda comes from what they call their "blog", which is a one-way propaganda push page (where all "comments" disappear into a black hole):
Today, John Walters, Director of National Drug Control Policy (President Bush's "Drug Czar"), commented on the release of Quest Diagnostics' Drug Testing Index (DTI). Since 1988, drug testing positivity rates have fallen by 72 percent, from 13.6 percent in 1988 to 3.8 percent in 2006, a new low for drug use among the combined U.S. workforce
Well that's good news. I certainly don't condone people showing up for work high. Although the ONDCP release doesn't link to the data cited in the article (Hmmmm....), I was so impressed by that success that I wanted to see the real numbers myself.
Here's what I found:
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