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Medicine's Sybil Marsh comments on Ohio's policing approach to drug trafficking

MEDIA | June 16, 2025
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The Statehouse News BureauSybil Marsh, associate professor at the School of Medicine, said a punitive policing approach to drug trafficking hasn’t produced a healthier population. “We know the war on drugs is a failure, and that the court and prison system has not reduced the incidence of substance use disorder or the effects of that,” she said.