Bill Gates injects $750 million into troubled AIDS fund
Thursday January 26th, 2012By Ben Hirschler DAVOS, Switzerland | Thu Jan 26, 2012 DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Microsoft chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates pledged a further $750 million to the troubled global AIDS fund on Thursday and urged governments to continue their support to save lives. “These are tough economic times, but that is no excuse for cutting [...]
100 years of the war on drugs
Thursday January 26th, 2012By Tom de Castella BBC News Magazine The first international drug treaty was signed a century ago this week. So what was the war on drugs like in 1912? Today it is taken for granted that governments will co-operate in the fight against the heroin and cocaine trade. But 100 years ago, narcotics passed from [...]
One hundred years of the war on drugs
Thursday January 26th, 201223 January 2012 By John Tyler (Photo: Tropical Museum) One hundred years ago today, the war on drugs started in The Hague. On 23 January 1912, twelve countries met to sign the first international agreement regulating the drug trade, the International Opium Convention. Little has changed in those hundred years; the United States still aggressively [...]
Prescription Drug Abuse Battle in Nassau County Turns Deadly, Reaches Epidemic Proportions
Thursday January 26th, 2012Jan-22-2012 Marianne Skolek Salem-News.com “Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.” Benjamin Franklin (SEAFORD, NY) – Nassau County, New York has sounded the alarm — they are experiencing a prescription drug abuse problem and are “taking the lead” in the nation and are forming an allegiance [...]
Illegal drugs feeding off pharmacy supply chain; ‘These drugs are killing a lot of people’
Thursday January 26th, 2012Tom Blackwell Jan 23, 2012 Hundreds of thousands of doses of OxyContin, morphine and other prescription narcotics are robbed, pilfered or otherwise lost from the pharmacy supply chain annually, with the volume of drugs taken from wholesalers and distributors soaring in recent years, Health Canada statistics indicate. The figures obtained by the National Post on [...]
HIV meds increasingly sold on the black market
Thursday January 26th, 2012DIANE JEANTET/CITY LIMITS NEW YORK January 23, 2012 Nearly 109,000 New Yorkers are living with HIV or AIDS, and their expensive array of medications has become particularly popular on the black-market in the past couple of years, according to law enforcement sources. Washington Heights has become the heart of the illegal HIV drug traffic, police [...]
Should we legalise drugs to win the war?
Tuesday January 24th, 2012By Danny Kushlick, Daily Mirror 24/01/2012 Illegal drug policy in Britain will be the subject of a parliamentary inquiry today for the first time in a decade. The first witness will be Sir Richard Branson, a champion of decriminali sation and a commissioner for international organisation the Global Commission on Drug Policy. But what happens [...]
Drug-users’ needles endanger public, study shows
Tuesday January 24th, 2012Florida law bans needle-exchange programs, putting sanitation workers and the general public in danger from infected needles, a new study says. Tuesday, 01.24.12 BY FRED TASKER FTASKER@MIAMIHERALD.COM As he worked on his thesis in public health two years ago, University of Miami master’s degree candidate Hansel Tookes spent hundreds of hours with fellow students prowling [...]
Pot-based prescription drug looks for FDA OK
Monday January 23rd, 2012LISA LEFF, Associated Press Sunday, January 22, 2012 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by the cannabis plant itself could soon be making their way to pharmacy shelves, according [...]
It’s time to end the failed war on drugs
Monday January 23rd, 2012Treating addicts as criminals has done absolutely nothing to address this crisis, writes Sir Richard Branson. 23 Jan 2012 Just as prohibition of alcohol failed in the United States in the 1920s, the war on drugs has failed globally. Over the past 50 years, more than $1 trillion has been spent fighting this battle, and [...]
U.S. opens new Canadian front in war on drugs
Monday January 23rd, 2012Published On Fri Jan 20 2012 Tonda MacCharles Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA—The United States launched a new offensive Friday in its war on drugs, targeting Canadian marijuana and ecstasy traffic flow across its northern border. President Barack Obama’s drug czar at the Office of National Drug Control Policy released an 80-page paper outlining the National Northern [...]
Alarming surge in Aids among addicts
Monday January 23rd, 2012Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD, Jan 21: A Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)-funded HIV/Aids Surveillance Project (HASP) has found an alarming surge in the prevalence level of HIV/Aids among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Pakistan. According to the findings of the fourth round of surveillance carried out in 19 cities of the four provinces, the overall [...]
