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Jimmy Carter: Unless we also identify and reduce the social pressures which encourage drug abuse, our other efforts will achieve…

On the recordJanuary 10, 1978
Unless we also identify and reduce the social pressures which encourage drug abuse, our other efforts will achieve little.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Proclamation 4544—Drug Abuse Prevention Week, 1978

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