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Re:Iceland radically cut teenage drug use by ksdale on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:07AM (#22575797)
I interpreted the parent's comment to mean that it could just be an artifact of the small size of the country. After all, there are almost certainly cities in the US where hundreds of teenagers have recently decided not to do drugs, but it wouldn't impact national statistics at all. If hundreds of teenagers in Reykjavik decide not to do drugs, it looks like they have "solved" the problem.
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Re:Iceland radically cut teenage drug use by AstralStorm on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:37AM (#22576011)
On the other hand, why not at least try out the approach? (Including the nasty curfew.) Is USA so poor they cannot get $250 in to send teens to do extracurriculars/sports?

Iceland is not exactly super rich.

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Re:Iceland radically cut teenage drug use by coretx on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:44AM (#22576070)
Iceland might very well be the richest country (Non city /oil state) in the world per capita. Measured both in monetary and non monetary terms. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Iceland
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Re:Iceland radically cut teenage drug use by lonelappde on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:47AM (#22576103)
Curfew does happen from time to time in pockets across the US. And it does work.
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