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1 UK: Crime Figures Fall When Heroin Addicts Get HelpWed, 06 May 1998
Source:New Scientist (UK)          Area:United Kingdom Lines:52 Added:05/06/1998

Addiction therapy saves money. Preliminary results from Britain's National Treatment Outcome Research Study, released this week, suggest that every £1 spent on treating heroin addicts brings a return of £3 in reduced levels of crime.

Yet despite these results, the government's new White Paper on drugs policy contains no firm pledge of fresh cash for treatment beyond promising that the £5 million in assets seized each year from drug traffickers will be used to tackle the drugs problem.

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2 UK: A Squandered OpportunityWed, 6 May 1998
Source:Independent, The (UK) Author:Ball, Graham Area:United Kingdom Lines:76 Added:05/06/1998

Drug tsar Keith Hellawell's White Paper misses the point, argues Graham Ball

TACKLING Drugs to Build a Better Britain, the title of drug tsar Keith Hellawell's proposals for solving the country's biggest social crisis, sounds like a spin-doctor's daydream.

The White Paper, unveiled last Monday, is long on rhetoric and short on logic. For many involved in countering drug problems, it represents a squandered opportunity.

Mr Hellawell, a former chief constable, claims his proposals will shift resources away from detection and towards prevention, in order to keep children out of the drug culture.

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3Makes More Sense To Treat And Train Drug OffendersWed, 6 May 1998
Source:Houston Chronicle (TX) Author:Wyatt, Carol        Lines:Excerpt Added:05/06/1998

GEORGE Soros has done it again. Stepped up to the plate. Walked the talk. Put his money where his mouth is.

Isn't it about time we insist our government does the same? Even as it admits needle-exchange programs reduce the spread of HIV and do not cause increased drug use, the Clinton administration refuses to release federal dollars to support needle exchange programs.

Not Soros. He has committed $1 million to support the programs. Again. The score? Soros: $2 million. The Clinton administration: $0.

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4US CA: Mendocino County Continues Funds To Target Marijuana GrowersWed, 6 May 1998
Source:Sacramento Bee (CA)          Area:California Lines:Excerpt Added:05/06/1998

UKIAH, Calif. (AP) -- Mendocino County supervisors will keep accepting $250,000 a year in state funds to target marijuana growers.

A no vote on Tuesday would have made the county the first in California to turn down money to battle pot.

For the second year, Supervisors John Pinches and Charles Peterson could not muster a third vote for rejecting the money. The two want to send a message to state and federal authorities that the anti-marijuana campaign is useless.

"The only thing we've accomplished is to drive the price of marijuana up to where it's worth more than gold," said Pinches.

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5 US CT: Drugs Seen At Root Of Most CrimeWed, 06 May 1998
Source:New Haven Register (CT) Author:Kaempffer, William Area:Connecticut Lines:68 Added:05/06/1998

NEW HAVEN - The most effective way to change criminals' lives is drug treatment, not stiffer jail terms, according to a study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.

"They're just going to go out there and do more crimes if we don't do something about the underlying issues," said Joseph A. Califano Jr., president of the center and former U.S. secretary of health, education and welfare.

Foremost of those underlying issues is addiction to alcohol and other drugs, he said.

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6 US: WIRE: House GOP Unveil Drug War StrategyWed, 06 May 1998
Source:Associated Press          Area:United States Lines:76 Added:05/06/1998

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Republicans donned blue ribbons and signed a pledge to pass legislation this year that they said will finally put America on the path toward winning the war on drugs.

``We must commit ourselves to total victory,'' House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday at a GOP rally to kick off a broad legislative plan to reduce drug use by deterring demand, cutting off supplies and increasing personal responsibility.

No Democrats participated in the task force that came up with the plan or joined the rally, and Democrats complained that Republicans were ignoring the president's 10-year strategy for cutting illegal drug use in half in order to score political points in an election year.

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7 US: WIRE: Gingrich Wants To Begin Testing Staff For DrugsTue, 05 May 1998
Source:Associated Press Author:Superville, Darlene Area:United States Lines:60 Added:05/05/1998

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Newt Gingrich plans to begin testing his staff for illegal drug use, his spokeswoman said Monday, and Gingrich said he already submits to the checks .

Spokeswoman Christina Martin said it was unclear when the staff checks would begin and whether employees based outside Washington would be involved. ``All of those details are under discussion,'' she said.

At a book-signing session in Bloomington, Minn., Gingrich told an Associated Press photographer that he submits to drug testing -- ``It's part of my annual physical.'' He turned away, then turned back and added: ``By the way, I know the answer when they check.''

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8 US AL: Defendant, Jurors Protest Stiff Sentence In Drug CaseTue, 05 May 1998
Source:Associated Press          Area:Alabama Lines:86 Added:05/05/1998

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Jurors who convicted first-time offender Teresa Wilson of illegally selling a bottle of morphine for $150 don't like the sentence she received: life without parole.

"In this case the punishment definitely, definitely does not fit the crime," said juror Keith Loftis, who has written state lawmakers and congressmen complaining about Mrs. Wilson's sentence.

Another juror, Lee Smith, said he regretted finding Mrs. Wilson guilty because of the stiff sentence. "It's just not right," he said.

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9 US: WIRE: House Republicans Vow To Make U.S. Drug-FreeTue, 05 May 1998
Source:Reuters Author:Kenen, Joanne Area:United States Lines:53 Added:05/05/1998

WASHINGTON - House Republicans Thursday unveiled a package of bills to combat drug abuse and vowed to make America virtually drug-free by 2002. At a packed rally in one of the most ornate Congressional hearing rooms, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other top Republicans unveiled several drug bills, some focusing on community-based drug programs, others seeking to stamp out drug production overseas and a third series aiming to hold anti-drug agency officials more accountable.

Citing 14,000 deaths a year directly related to drugs and another 6,000 indirect deaths, Gingrich said if that level of casualties was happening in Bosnia, Iraq or Korea ``we would be up in arms.Instead, he said, ``people shrug their shoulders.''

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10 US AL: WIRE: Defendant, Jurors Protest Stiff Sentence In Drug CaseTue, 05 May 1998
Source:Associated Press          Area:Alabama Lines:81 Added:05/05/1998

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) -- Jurors who convicted first-time offender Teresa Wilson of illegally selling a bottle of morphine for $150 don't like the sentence she received: life without parole.

"In this case the punishment definitely, definitely does not fit the crime," said juror Keith Loftis, who has written state lawmakers and congressmen complaining about Mrs. Wilson's sentence.

Another juror, Lee Smith, said he regretted finding Mrs. Wilson guilty because of the stiff sentence. "It's just not right," he said.

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11 US: Editorial: Land Of The Smoke-FreeTue, 05 May 1998
Source:Economist, The (US)          Area:United States Lines:79 Added:05/05/1998

There is no case for stiff new penalties against America's tobacco firms

The extraordinary political battle over the future of America's tobacco industry seems likely to come to a climax over the next few weeks. Will Bill Clinton work with Republicans on Capitol Hill to impose drastic new penalties on the once-mighty industry? Or will president and Congress settle for posturing - each aiming to outbid the other ahead of this autumn's Congressional elections, proposing ever more outlandish punishments, until the process collapses without yielding legislation? The tobacco firms too have a choice to make. Now that Congress has picked apart the deal they agreed with state governments last June - a deal that, on any disinterested assessment, was already harsh - should they refuse to co-operate in seeking a national agreement, as they now threaten to do? And, if so, should they fight their cases through the courts or seek quick settlements state by state?

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12 US: Children Taking Steroids To Excel In Sports, Report SaysTue, 05 May 1998
Source:Seattle Times (WA)          Area:United States Lines:49 Added:05/05/1998

CHICAGO-(AP) - Boys and girls as young as 10 are taking illegal steroids to excel in sports, according to the first survey to look at use of bodybuilding drugs as early as fifth grade.

The survey found that 2.7 percent of 965 youngsters questioned at four Massachusetts middle schools are using anabolic steroids. Experts said that represents a significant problem.

"We have thought that it has been a problem primarily of high-school and college students," said Dr. Robert Blum, professor of pediatrics and director of adolescent health at the University of Minnesota.

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