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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Drug Policy- COMMENT: (1-2) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Week after week, drug policy ironies abound; this week was no
exception. Despite growing disenchantment with all variations of
'zero tolerance,' its utopian goals are still ardently pursued by
politicians at considerable expense- not only to taxpayers- but to
those unable to defend themselves- school children and welfare
recipients, for example. | ||||||||||||||||||
(1) OPED: 'ZERO TOLERANCE' COMES UP SHORT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Despite the overwhelming popularity of expulsion and out-of-school
suspension among educators, there is little scientific research to show
that zero tolerance or other "get tough" measures are effective in
reducing school violence or increasing safety. | ||||||||||||||||||
On the contrary, there is a growing body of research showing a clear association between disciplinary exclusion and further poor outcomes such as delinquency, substance abuse and school dropout. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(2) OPPOSITION TO PLAN TO TEST WELFARE APPLICANTS FOR DRUGS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
DETROIT -- In a controversial and unusual effort to move more welfare
recipients into the work force, Michigan plans a pilot program that
would require thousands of those applying for aid to take drug tests to
qualify for benefits. | ||||||||||||||||||
Starting in October, Michigan welfare applicants under 65 in three
locations yet to be chosen will be required to take drug tests or
forfeit their benefits. People already receiving benefits at those
locations would be randomly tested. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT (3) | ||||||||||||||||||
Despite prior acknowledgement by McCzar that alcohol is a major part
of the drug problems faced by juveniles, ONDCP and PDFA strained
credulity to explain their fierce opposition to its inclusion in
ONDCP's expensive, highly touted (and still unproven) ad blitz against
illegal drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||
(3) PUTTING ALCOHOL IN ADS ON DRUGS IS RESISTED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Evidence abounds that beer is more popular with adolescents than
marijuana. Yet while the government is spending $195 million this year
on its national media campaign to dissuade adolescents from using
illicit drugs, not a penny of the appropriated tax dollars goes to warn
about the dangers of drinking. | ||||||||||||||||||
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"It's the biggest drug abuse problem for adolescents, and it's linked
to the use of other, illegal drugs," he (McCaffrey) said at a news
conference on Feb. 8. But a month later, McCaffrey told a House
Appropriations subcommittee that he lacked the authority to spend
federal money on anti-alcohol messages in the media campaign, which has
now reached 102 cities across the country. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT (4-5) | ||||||||||||||||||
Although paying lip service to "treatment," our government also
remains fiercely opposed to heroin maintenance; grudging and highly
restricted use of methadone maintenance seems as far as it's willing
to go. | ||||||||||||||||||
The global explosion of cheap, pure heroin is shattering overdose
records around the country- not just in Plano. Nevertheless, it's
being ignored by ONDCP, which is busy touting fewer (casual) drug
users as evidence of the "success" of US policy and simply can't deal
with the reality of the heroin surge. | ||||||||||||||||||
(4) THE HEROIN PRESCRIBING DEBATE - INTEGRATING SCIENCE AND POLITICS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Heroin is abused in almost all countries. It is estimated that about 8
million people (0.14% of the world's population) use heroin each year
(1). Of the illegal drugs, it is associated with the highest mortality
and most emergency room episodes, and so is arguably the most
problematic from a health perspective (1). Along with prevention and
law enforcement strategies, treatment is an essential tool for reducing
illicit heroin use and its resulting problems. | ||||||||||||||||||
The ultimate goal of treatment is to help those affected overcome
dependence and be fully reintegrated into society. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Randomized studies showed that injectable heroin was superior to both
injectable morphine and injectable methadone in attracting the target
group, preventing premature treatment dropout, and reducing illegal
drug use. | ||||||||||||||||||
Participants in this study showed substantial improvements in health and well-being and very pronounced reductions in crime. ... | ||||||||||||||||||
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(5) MARCIA HOOD-BROWN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
1983 - Graduates from Jefferson High School | ||||||||||||||||||
1991 - Wins fellowship to Brandeis University | ||||||||||||||||||
1993 - Starts teaching at Portland State University | ||||||||||||||||||
1997 - Awarded doctorate from Brandeis | ||||||||||||||||||
1999 - Dies of heroin overdose at age 33 | ||||||||||||||||||
In the fall of 1997, Marcia Hood-Brown had the world on a string. She
had just finished her doctorate in sociology from Brandeis University.
She was respected, even revered, by her students at Portland State
University. She had landed a coveted postdoctoral position doing
research for the federal government. She was a brilliant scholar, an
eloquent writer and a beautiful woman. | ||||||||||||||||||
She was also a junkie. | ||||||||||||||||||
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DEATHS FROM HEROIN OVERDOSE IN MULTNOMAH COUNTY | ||||||||||||||||||
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1989 33 === | ||||||||||||||||||
1999 Projected figure | ||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (6-7) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Prison issues continued to stimulate considerable direct and indirect
criticism of US drug policy; last week, long magazine articles on the
subject appeared in two unexpected sources; both voiced strong
criticism of the status quo. | ||||||||||||||||||
(6) A CRIME AGAINST WOMEN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
You Be the Jury: Does This Woman Deserve To Be Locked Up For 24 Years? | ||||||||||||||||||
A Harsh Law Punishes Women Unjustly And Lets Drug Lords Off Easy. | ||||||||||||||||||
Amy Pofahl's drug-kingpin husband cut a deal that dumped her in prison
for a quarter century - and freed him after four years. Glamour
investigates how she and thousands of other women guilty of relatively
minor crimes end up doing more time than men due to a controversial
federal law. | ||||||||||||||||||
HERE IS AN INTENSE CALIFORNIA SUN on the morning. I pass the two rows
of gleaming razor wire, the metal-detector arch, the armed guards and
two vault-like doors before arriving at a brick patio inside FCI
Dublin, a low-security womens' federal correctional institution outside
of Oakland. Amy Pofahl stands on the other side of the terrace, her
feet next to a patch of pansies with a sign stuck in it that reads, "No
Inmates Allowed Beyond This Point." | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Sentencing Project http://www.sentencingproject.org Families Against Mandatory Minimums http://www.famm.org/
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(7) WHY YOUR CHILD COULD WIND UP IN JAIL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Parents Who Are Shocked To Learn That Their Kids Are Hooked On Drugs Are Even More Shocked By What Happens When They Cry For Help. | ||||||||||||||||||
Treat Or Punish? Do The Math | ||||||||||||||||||
For every three Americans in treatment, another six need help but can't
get it. Only about a sixth of all prisoners who urgently need
treatment receive it, and the treatment they do receive is inadequate.
Annual cost to incarcerate one addict: $25,900. Annual cost to provide
long-term residential treatment for one addict: $6,800. Cost to
decrease U.S. cocaine consumption 1 percent by eradicating sources of
supply: $783 million. Cost to decrease cocaine consumption 1 percent
by increasing drug treatment: $34 million. Tax payer savings for every
$1 invested in drug Treatment: $7.46. How much your insurance premium
might go up if treatment for addiction were covered equally With other
illnesses: 0.2%. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Now imagine that the only way to get him the treatment he needs is to
have him thrown in jail. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Whatever the scientific evidence, addiction still looks to many Americans more like a crime than a disease. Of the $17 billion federal anti-drug budget, only 20 percent is spent to help people stop using drugs; most of the rest goes to law enforcement. Drug arrests have pushed the U.S. jail and prison population to over 1.8 million people, of whom an estimated 1.2 million are alcohol or drug abusers. Few of these people are violent, high-level dealers: More than 90 percent of all drug arrests are of nonviolent offenders guilty only of possession or of dealing small quantities to support their own habits. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT (8-9) | ||||||||||||||||||
The previous week had seen failure of promising efforts to soften New
York's onerous Rockefeller drug laws. On the Left Coast, California's
"Three Strikes" law, although of more recent origin, has already
filled a crowded prison system beyond capacity. | ||||||||||||||||||
This week, a documentary expose of the political frenzy which helped
pass Three Strikes is being aired nationally and although reform
legislation was shelved, continuing furor over the size of
California's prisons guarantees it will come up again. | ||||||||||||||||||
(8) RUSH TO VENGEANCE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Vivid Documentary Skillfully Weaves In Bigger Questions Of The Three
Strikes Law | ||||||||||||||||||
Especially in the permit-no-subtlety world of talk radio and
get-tough-on-crime politics, it sounds like a great idea: Pass a law
that tells criminals, "Three strikes and you're out of society for at
least 25 years." | ||||||||||||||||||
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By the end, his statistics and interviews and observation add up to an
indictment of making criminal-justice policy in moments of high
emotion. California's violent crime rate did go down in the three
years after Three Strikes, the film says, but no more so than in states
without such laws. | ||||||||||||||||||
And by 1998 one in five California inmates was being sentenced under the law -- in 80 percent of those cases for non-violent crimes. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(9) SWING AND A MISS ON 'THREE STRIKES' (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Prospects for serious reform of California's Draconian "Three Strikes"
law appear dim, at least for this year. Santa Monica Democratic Sen.
Tom Hayden's S.B. 79, which would require that a third "strike" would
have to be a serious or violent felony (rather than any felony) to
merit a 25-years-to-life sentence, is languishing and will probably not
be brought up for a full Senate vote this year. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Cannabis & Hemp | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (10) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
In a week that produced far less Cannabis-related news than usual; the
conservative San Antonio Express expressed (what else?) satisfaction
at the decision to provide Cannabis for research; it should be added
that those who have sampled the government's 'research-grade' product
have a uniformly low opinion of its 'consistency, purity and quality,'
but hey- who's complaining? | ||||||||||||||||||
(10) EDITORIAL: MEDICAL RESEARCH ON MARIJUANA RIGHT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The Clinton administration has eased restrictions on obtaining
marijuana for medical research. | ||||||||||||||||||
The decision was sound and should allow scientists to gain important knowledge about the drug. Enough evidence about the positive medicinal effects of the drug exists to justify more scientific examination. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Supported by the White House Office of National Drug Policy, the new guidelines will allow scientists easier access to research-grade marijuana grown on government lands, according to the AP. | ||||||||||||||||||
The new rules will help ensure the consistency, purity and quality of
the marijuana used in research. | ||||||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (11-13) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
An expanded International section reflects that nearly half of the
articles sent to the archives last week originated in the UK and
Canada. | ||||||||||||||||||
The uncanny resemblance in the rhetoric of Tony Blair's government to
that of the Clinton Administration was echoed in long range plans
announced by British Drug Czar Keith Hellawell. | ||||||||||||||||||
Britain's treatment mafia also predictably weighed in with a demand for a bigger slice of the pie; its criticism of government methods was noticeably sharper than those usually voiced in the US. | ||||||||||||||||||
What was very different was the outright derision with which some
skeptical UK media greeted this "Mission Impossible." The Scotsman
called for legalization of "soft drugs" first, and possibly all drugs
later on. | ||||||||||||||||||
(11) MINISTERS PLEDGE TO HALVE UK DRUG ABUSE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
AN ambitious programme drastically to reduce heroin and cocaine abuse, stop schoolchildren taking drugs, and wean addicts away from their criminal lifestyles, was unveiled by the Government yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||
The strategy for the next decade concentrates on treating users at clinics and rehabilitation centres rather than punishing them in jail. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Drugs agencies, however, were startled at the scale of the targets set
by the Government and questioned whether the proposals were feasible
without massive additional funding. The issue was further thrown into
confusion when it emerged at the launch of the national strategy that
the Government had not compiled statistics to measure its strategy
against. It will therefore be impossible to calculate whether the cuts
promised have been successful. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(12) UK: WHAT A WASTE AS DRUGS TSAR PUBLISHES HIS FIRST ANNUAL AUDIT (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Howard Parker Argues That Millions Have Been Poured Down The Drain On
Prevention And Enforcement Rather Than Treatment | ||||||||||||||||||
There are few public service sectors left which are not now subject to
routine audit and inspection. Each service has mission statements,
charters, performance indicators and effectiveness reviews. Most are
published and public debate is routine. Best value has even found its
way into local authority services. | ||||||||||||||||||
Yet one burgeoning service industry, drugs interventions - through prevention, enforcement and treatment - remains largely unaccountable. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The coming shortfall in treatment provision could have been avoided but
for misplaced faith in prevention and enforcement. The overall budget
is biased against treatment, even though we know what works, because
the other two sectors are generously funded for political, not
proficiency, reasons. The rhetoric says we must educate our children
from the nursery to resist drugs and we must lock up the dealers of
death and throw away the key. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(13) UK: WAR THE ENFORCER CAN'T WIN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The new drive against drugs will actually do more harm than good, says
Edward Pearce. A different approach is needed - and we could start by
legalising soft drugs | ||||||||||||||||||
In seeking to limit availability, "our aim is to reduce access to all
drugs amongst young people significantly, and to reduce access to all
drugs which cause the greatest harm, particularly heroin and cocaine,
by 25 per cent by 2005 and by 50 per cent by 2008". | ||||||||||||||||||
The words, precise in the way of the silliest undertakings, are those
of Dr Jack Cunningham, not altogether a bad chap, not really the idiot
he is making himself here on behalf of a collective Cabinet idiocy. But
he is proclaiming the Blair Government's latest contribution to the
profits of drug dealing and making, amid the cumulus of futile
aspiration, one verifiably wrong statement.... | ||||||||||||||||||
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So what should we do now that Blairism in all its argument-proof
prissiness never will? Refusing any longer to do what we cannot
usefully do, we legalise soft drugs. We expand widely on the field
experiments of the two Drs Marks who have been guiding patients to
legally supplied hard drugs, to monitor how people will cope who rely
on drugs but not on criminal suppliers. If, over two years, those tests
validate the point that life improves with lawful regularity, we should
proceed to the legalisation of all drugs. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT (14-15) | ||||||||||||||||||
In overall policy Canada continued its pale imitation of the Draconian American drug war by floating a scheme to combat money laundering reminiscent of our unmourned "Know Your Customer" fiasco. | ||||||||||||||||||
The Calgary Sun revealed that Canadians and Americans are equally
unsuccessful at keeping their prisons drug free. | ||||||||||||||||||
(14) CANADA: MONEY LAUNDERING TARGETED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Tough Law Would Disclose Large Bank Transactions | ||||||||||||||||||
A tough law on money laundering that will require the reporting of
suspicious transactions of $10,000 or more is expected to be introduced
in the House of Commons as early as today, sources say. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Bankers are ready to co-operate, an official said. | ||||||||||||||||||
"It has been long awaited by the banking industry," Gene McLean,
director of security for the Canadian Bankers Association, said
yesterday. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(15) CANADA: DRUG POLICY CALLED 'BAD JOKE' (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
OTTAWA --It's just as easy to get crack, cocaine, heroine and pot inside federal prisons as it is on the outside, Reform charged yesterday after calling zero-tolerance policies a "bad joke." | ||||||||||||||||||
Reform MP Randy White said a national inmate survey obtained through access laws shows 1,300 of 15,000 federal inmates used crack or cocaine daily. Another 1,300 admitted using heroine and 5,400 use marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (16-17) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
One policy area where Canada is way ahead of the US is legalization of
medical Cannabis at the federal level (where it must be done in
Canada). That doesn't mean the pace hasn't been glacial- Health
Minister Rock's dithering over sources of Cannabis for research looked
particularly silly next to articles detailing the scale of Canada's
present illegal production. | ||||||||||||||||||
(16) CANADA: OTTAWA LOOKING FOR STEADY SUPPLY OF DOPE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Federal government may have to grow its own marijuana for clinical
tests on whether drug helps patients | ||||||||||||||||||
Ottawa -- The federal government is having trouble getting a supply of
marijuana for forthcoming clinical trials on medicinal uses for the
drug, so it may have to resort to growing its own. | ||||||||||||||||||
"I think we are up to it as a nation, aren't we?" Health Minister Allan
Rock said yesterday after a meeting of the Commons health committee
where the issue was discussed. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(17) CANADA GROWS MORE POT THAN PARSLEY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
More marijuana was grown in Canada last year than parsley, with the criminal crop increasingly taking root in Ontario and Quebec. And it has become a "major problem" in Alberta, said RCMP Staff Sgt. Birnie Smith, Calgary drug section commander. Some observers claim Alberta is third only to British Columbia and Ontario for the quantity produced. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (18) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Drug prohibition as a national policy began in late 18th Century China
when the Emperor became alarmed by the British opium trade. As the
next article (by way of Germany) indicates, the policy has proven no
more successful over the ensuing 200-plus years. | ||||||||||||||||||
(18) CHINA: WITH THE NEEDLE CAME AIDS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Consumption Of Narcotics Was Believed To Have Vanished- Now Addiction
Is Spreading Fast | ||||||||||||||||||
For a long time, the Chinese thought of drugs as merely a historical
issue-having to do with the Opium Wars against the British. Nowadays,
though, disco-goers are popping "head-shaker pills" (Ecstasy), young
artists and business people are smoking marijuana, rock musicians and
in some places even students are shooting heroin. And entire shiploads
of drugs from neighboring countries are secretly making their way into
China. | ||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
2 Mainstream Magazines Present a Pro Reform Slant | ||||||||||||||||||
The extremely important Redbook and Glamour articles referenced above
represent major wins for reform. Such pro reform articles in these
mainstream publications (with a combined circulation of 5.5 million
subscribers) are further indication of the significant inroads the
reform movement is making in educating and influencing the media and
thereby the public. | ||||||||||||||||||
We conducted a Focus Alert on these articles earlier this week but if
you haven't already done so please consider writing a short letter of
encouragement to these important magazines. | ||||||||||||||||||
Redbook Contact: | ||||||||||||||||||
Bill Perry suggests: | ||||||||||||||||||
Letters can also be posted to Galmour at their web site below.
"Let's come at them from all fronts!" | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Kubby Files - Updated Web pages | ||||||||||||||||||
The all new Java-powered web site,"THE KUBBY FILES," is on-line now
at: http://www.kubby.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||
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REFORM CARTOON OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Grady Roper writes: | ||||||||||||||||||
I have drawn a piece of comictary in response to my local narcotics
task force gunning down a local resident here in hays county Texas. The
story I tell is not that of Rusty Windle's, but a depiction of the fear
I have of being murdered in my own back yard... it can be viewed at my
FTP site: ftp://ftp.sanmarcos.net/drugwar.jpg | ||||||||||||||||||
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
"In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses"
-- Heinrich Heine | ||||||||||||||||||
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