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not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps
moving but does not make any progress."
The World Drug Report 2005 -- United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime overview of international illicit drug trends. It also presents an estimate of the financial value of the world drug market, and the preliminary creation of an illicit drug index. The analysis of trends, from 10 years or more, is in Volume 1. Detailed statistics are presented in Volume 2. These volumes provide the most up to date view of today's illicit drug situation. Global Illicit Drug Trends (large .pdf file) Title 21 - Food and Drugs Chapter 13 - Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Drug Scheduling describes the basic or parent chemical and does not describe the salts, isomers and salts of isomers, esters, ethers and derivatives which may also be controlled substances. DOJ - DEA Federal Trafficking Penalties DOJ - DEA State Factsheets DOJ - DEA SAMHSA's mission is to build resilience and facilitate recovery for people with or at risk for substance abuse and mental illness.
The Higher Education Center provides support to all institutions of higher education to address alcohol and other drug problems. Common Sense for Drug Policy disseminates factual information and comments on existing laws, policies and practices. CSDP provides assistance to individuals and organizations. CSDP supports syringe exchanges, the availability of Methadone, Buprenorphine, and other measures to reduce harm and restrict the spread of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. CSDP advocates the regulation and control of marijuana similar to alcohol and subject to local options. CSDP favors decriminalizing hard drugs and providing them only through prescription. CSDP also advocates clear federal guidelines for pain management so physicians do not endure unwarranted law enforcement scrutiny of medical practices. Harm Induction vs Harm Reduction: Comparing American and British Approaches to Drug Use by Katherine Van Wormer -- America's War on Drugs inflicts harm. U.S. treatment is being challenged by the highly developed harm reduction model, in Britain. Government expenditure, spread of AIDS, criminalization of drug users, and treatment neglect are just several of the negative consequences. George Soros is the "Daddy Warbucks of drug legalization," says Joseph Califano Jr. of Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. "Transnational Narco-Corruption and Narco-Investment: A Focus on Mexico" by Peter Lupsha, an expert on Mexican history, society and politics. A brief history of Mexican drug cartels connections to the top of the Mexican political system and to the Colombian and Peruvian cartels. Transnational Organized Crime, Spring 1995. International drug kingpin suspects H.R. 3164 - Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act Amado Carrillo-Fuentes died in a Mexican hospital in July 1997 after undergoing plastic surgery to change his appearance. Carrillo had ties to Mexico's former Commissioner of the National Institute to Combat Drugs (NICD), Gutierrez-Rebollo. His organized Juarez based crime group is associated with the Rodriguez-Orejuela organization and the Ochoa brothers, from Medellin. Carrillo's cartel was responsible for importing billions of dollars' worth of cocaine, heroin, and other illegal drugs into the US. Washington Post Murder, Money, and Mexico -- Investigative report on the killings, kickbacks and possible drug connections during the administration of Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. FRONTLINE Mexico/US Border - Corruption and the War on Drugs Gen. Jose de Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, Mexico's highest ranking anti-drug official, was fired and arrested on charges that he accepted bribes in exchange for protecting a high-level Mexican drug trafficker 10 weeks after he was appointed. February 1997 Thomas A. Constantine, Drug Enforcement Administration U.S. Department of Justice regarding: Cooperation with Mexico -- February 25, 1997
Examines the people, policies, and struggles behind America's 30-year battle against illegal drugs. Despite the US's multibillion dollar effort, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and other illicit drugs continue to thrive on America's streets. Drug trafficking, an integral part of the world economy, is a $300-$400 billion dollar industry globally. Rafael Perez's testimony on police misconduct was the largest scandal in Los Angeles Police Department history. Peter J. Boyer's investigation into the LAPD is the subject of PBS's "Frontline." Streaming audio of Perez's confession. Harsh mandatory minimum drug laws has fueled the growth of informers in the war on drugs. An investigation into how the use of informants, has become a lynchpin in prosecutorial strategy in the war on drugs. This program focuses on snitches or informers who acted as drug informants to get a reduced sentence. The Opium Kings - Adrian Cowell's 30-year chronicle of Burma's heroin trade.
Kari & Associates June 16, 2006 Copyright Kari Sable Burns 1994-2007 |
Famous Fatal Overdoses John
Belushi Myth: Drug use can be ended by police efforts. Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett -- Elaine Bartlett, spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills prison for selling cocaine--a first offense--under New York's Rockefeller drug laws. January 26, 2000, when Bartlett is set free and returns to New York City. At 42, she has no money, no job, no home. All she does have is a large and troubled family, including four children in a decrepit housing project on the Lower East Side. Over the next months, she clashes with her daughters, hunts for a job, visits her son and husband in prison, negotiates the rules of parole, and campaigns for the repeal of the laws that led to her long prison term. Why Marijuana Should Be Legal by Ed Rosenthal, Steve Kubby A Million Little Pieces by James Frey The 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in 3 states, without ID or money, his face mangled and missing 4 front teeth, on a steep descent from drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he uses again. Frey spends 2 agonizing months of detox.His fellow patients include a crack addict with whom Frey wades into an ill-fated relationship. Frey submits to major dental surgery without anesthesia.
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Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black
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