Drug injection taking drugs, injection is favoured by some people as the full effects of the drug are experienced very quickly, typically in five to ten seconds. It also bypasses first-pass metabolism in the liver, resulting in higher bioavailability and efficiency for many drugs (such as morphine or diacetylmorphine/heroin; roughly two-thirds of which is destroyed in the liver when consumed orally) than oral ingestion would. The effect is that the person gets a stronger (yet shorter-acting) effect from the same amount of the drug. Drug injection is therefore often related to substance dependence. In a recreational context, the shorter, more intense "high"
Clergy for a New Drug Policy Clergy for a New Drug Policy Clergy for a New Drug Policy is an American organization of religious leaders which seeks to reform drug laws in the interest of social justice. The group was begun in 2015 by Chicago United Church of Christ pastor Reverend Al Sharp. The group includes Protestant pastors as well as Jewish rabbis, and is particularly active in Chicago. Clergy for a New Drug Policy was one of several organizations that in 2016 called for Arizonans to support Proposition 205 to legalize cannabis in the state. Commentary on the group described it as part of a