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From: editor@mapinc.org (Drugnews-Digest)
To: drugnews-digest@mapinc.org
Subject: MAP: Drugnews-Digest V97 #229
Organization: Media Awareness Project URL:http://www.mapinc.org/
Drugnews-Digest Saturday, September 20 1997 Volume 97 : Number 229
Panel calls for OK of drug lollipop
Source: Orange County Register -news, page 7
LTE: Dutch Drug Lesson
Source: The New York Times
Decomissioning cloud hangs over Everett destroyer
Source: The Herald, Everett, WA
North-South reversal on teenage drug-taking
Source: The Times, London
WIRE: Soccer club linked to drug lord
Source: Reuter
Milk bottles save runaway girl from heroin
Source: The Times, London
'Incarcerating Blacks' by Maxine Waters
Source: Tikkun magazine, September/October 1997
WIRE: Smoking to kill 20 million in Europe by millennium
Source: Reuter
WIRE: Tobacco lawyers asking judge to gut secondhand smoke case
Source: Reuter
MP accuses columnist of going to pot
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
McCaffey reports on anti-drug work
Source: Skagit Valley Herald
AG vows to expose tobacco 'lies, secrets'
Source: Houston Chronicle, page 29A
Study challenges myth of Britain's rising drug crisis
Source: Daily Telegraph
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Subj: Panel calls for OK of drug lollipop
From: John W. Black
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 15:14:47 -0400
File: v97.n229.a01
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a01.html
Pubdate: 18 September 1997
Source: Orange County Register -news, page 7
Contact: letters@link.freedom.com
Panel calls for OK of drug lollipop
By: PAUL RECER, The Associated Press
Photo: PAINKILLING CANDY: Prototype packaging for Actiq, a
raspberry-flavored narcotic lollipop, is designed to make the off white
pops unattractive to children, its maker said. Actiq would be used to treat
breakthrough pain in cancer patients.
GAITHERSBURG, Md. - A raspberry-flavored lollipop loaded with narcotic
painkiller for treatment of cancer patients was recommended for federal
approval Wednesday, despite concerns about accidental poisoning of children.
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted unanimously that the
benefit to cancer patients from the painkilling candy far outweighed the
risk of young children being harmed.
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Subj: LTE: Dutch Drug Lesson
From: Jane Marcus <jmarcus@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 15:14:42 -0400
File: v97.n229.a02
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a02.html
Source: The New York Times
Pubdate: 16 Sep 1997
Contact: letters@nytimes.com
Dutch Drug Lesson
To the Editor:
In "Teen-Agers and Marijuana; Scaring Them Straight Has Lost Its Edge"
(Week in Review, Sept. 14), Dr. Robert L. DuPont states that the gateway
concept describes how drug use progresses rather than why it happens. That
distinction is too often overlooked.
One contributor to the progression from marijuana to hard drugs is their
shared black market. An individual who has to go to the black market to buy
marijuana finds it just as easy to buy other drugs.
The Dutch set up a drug policy intended to separate the hard and soft drug
markets. The rate of hard drug use in the Netherlands is now remarkably low
compared with ours, while the rate of marijuana use is about the same even
though it's quasi-legal. Could we take a lesson from that?
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Subj: Decomissioning cloud hangs over Everett destroyer
From: John Smith
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:16:16 -0400
File: v97.n229.a03
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a03.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: The Herald, Everett, WA
Contact: letters@heraldnet.com
Chandler set for mission
Decomissioning cloud hangs over Everett destroyer
By Jim Haley
Herald Writer
Everett -- When the Navy pulled the plug last March on a long- planned
assignment for one of two destroyers based here, the crew was left adrift
for months.
The 320 crew members of the USS Chandler didn't know from month to month
when they would next have a meaningful job to do, or what it might be.
Family members who had planned for a separation suddenly found they had to
make other plans. Work days at Naval Station Everett no longer included
training for a specific job.
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Subj: North-South reversal on teenage drug-taking
From: Vikki <v.jones@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:16:18 -0400
File: v97.n229.a04
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a04.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: The Times, London
Contact: editor@the-times.co.uk
North-South reversal on teenage drug-taking
BY RICHARD FORD
HOME CORRESPONDENT
YOUNG people in the North and the Midlands are increasingly turning to
drugs, while in London and the South the practice is in decline, according
to a Home Office study published today.
Among the trendsetting 16 to 19-year-olds, the North now has a higher level
of drug abuse than London, a reversal of the position three years ago. The
study even suggests that the fashion for dance drugs, such as Ecstasy, may
be in decline in the South.
Overall, in England and Wales, the level of drug misuse stabilised between
1994 and 1996, although it is too early to suggest that this is anything
other than a pause before abuse rises again.
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Subj: WIRE: Soccer club linked to drug lord
From: GDaurer@aol.com
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:16:10 -0400
File: v97.n229.a05
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a05.html
Pubdate: Thu, 18 Sep 1997
Source: Reuter
BOGOTA (Reuter) - A prestigious soccer club named for Colombia's
millionaires has been linked to one of the country's most notorious drug
lords, authorities said Thursday.
Spokesmen for the chief prosecutor's office said legal action had been
taken late Wednesday against Club Deportivo Los Millonarios because of its
alleged ties to Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha.
Gacha, known as "El Mexicano," served as the right-hand man and a dreaded
enforcer of Medellin cartel boss Pablo Escobar until he was gunned down by
police in December 1989.
An avid sports fan, he never denied his allegiance to Bogota-based
Millonarios, which has been crowned national soccer champion 13 times.
That number may have brought Los Millonarios bad luck, however, since
prosecutors said they recently discovered Gacha was one of the team's
leading shareholders.
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Subj: Milk bottles save runaway girl from heroin
From: Vikki <v.jones@bristol.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:16:21 -0400
File: v97.n229.a06
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a06.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: The Times, London
Contact: editor@the-times.co.uk
Milk bottles save runaway girl from heroin
A TEENAGE runaway was rescued from a life of heroin addiction on the
streets after her photograph was printed on 75,000 milk bottles. Several
shoppers telephoned police to say that they had seen Kirsty McFadden, thin,
bedraggled and ill, begging in Bristol.
Begging had earned her up to #100 a day, but most was spent on heroin for
her and her boyfriend and her weight had fallen to 5 1/2 stone. Now, a year
after leaving home, the 16-year-old has been reunited with her family and
is back home in Newton Abbot, Devon, recovering slowly from her addiction.
Miss McFadden was the seventh missing person to be featured on milk bottles
sold by Iceland, and was the first of them to be found.
Police and social services launched a wide hunt when she failed to return
from school to her foster parents, with whom she had been living after
running away from home on previous occasions. It was thought that she was
travelling the country with a circus or funfair, but the reality was
grimmer. She slid into drug addiction, begging and living in cardboard boxes.
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Subj: 'Incarcerating Blacks' by Maxine Waters
From: Jerry Sutliff (gsutliff@dnai.com)
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:16:12 -0400
File: v97.n229.a07
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a07.html
Pubdate: September/October, 1997 issue
Source: Tikkun magazine, September/October 1997
Contact: Editor, Michael Lerner, Tikkun, 5100 Leona St., Oakland, CA94619-3002
[NOTE: Tikkun does not have an unrealistically short time limit for
publishing the letters to the editor. The standards required for
publication are very high. GMS]
Subject: "Incarcerating Blacks" by Maxine Waters
Confronting the Realities of Public Policy Gone Wrong
The Incarceration of Black America
When Congress passed its latest slew of mandatory minimum sentencing laws
in the 1980s, the notion was to get tough on crime, especially drug-related
crimes. The plan was to unclog the court system, jail drug kingpins who
were preying on our nation's young people, and prevent "liberal" judges
from letting criminals off too easily. The "war on drugs," "get tough on
crime," "three strikes, you're out" slogans that politicians used so well
on the campaign trail have been sadly crafted into laws with little
consideration for their human consequences.
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Subj: WIRE: Smoking to kill 20 million in Europe by millennium
From: shug <shug@shuggie.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:49:08 -0400
File: v97.n229.a08
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a08.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: Reuter
Smoking to kill 20 million in Europe by millennium
LONDON (Reuter) - Smoking will have killed 20 million people in Europe in
the period between 1950 and the year 2000, a leading lung specialist said
Thursday.
Nearly 500,000 people in the European Union were killed by tobacco in 1995,
said Professor Stephen Spiro, president of the European Respiratory
Society, at the body's annual congress in Berlin.
And in a survey of 250 European lung experts, three quarters thought
doctors should send the right message to patients by stopping smoking.
Nine out of 10 of those surveyed supported a Europe-wide ban on all forms
of tobacco advertising and promotion to cut smoking deaths.
Spiro said in a statement released in London: "Tobacco is one of Europe's
biggest killers. We must have national as well as European strategies to
limit tobacco use.
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Subj: WIRE: Tobacco lawyers asking judge to gut secondhand smoke case
From: shug <shug@shuggie.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:49:11 -0400
File: v97.n229.a09
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a09.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: Reuter
Tobacco lawyers asking judge to gut secondhand smoke case
By Michael Connor
MIAMI (Reuter) - Tobacco lawyers want the judge in a $5 billion
secondhand-smoke trial to slash the legal claims against cigarette makers,
saying no evidence pointing to an industry conspiracy had been shown to
jurors.
Charges that the five cigarette makers and two trade groups conspired to
hide the dangers of secondhand smoke are key to the claims of the 60,000
flight attendants suing the industry.
The tobacco lawyers, who are scheduled to argue Friday in Dade County
Court, asserted in court papers that lawyers Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt
had presented a highly emotional but unsubstantial plaintiffs case.
"Plaintiffs have approached the case as if it were a heresy trial, with
witnesses swearing allegiance to the (secondhand smoke) causation thesis
and implying that anyone who believes to the contrary is a heretic and a
defrauder,'' Edward Moss, an attorney for Brown & Williamson, wrote in a
court paper.
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Subj: MP accuses columnist of going to pot
From: creator@mapinc.org
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:49:15 -0400
File: v97.n229.a10
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a10.html
Pubdate: Friday, September 19, 1997
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Contact: letters@smh.com.au
MP accuses columnist of going to pot
By MARK RILEY
News Ltd columnist Piers Akerman, a leading campaigner against the ACT
heroin trial, has been branded a drug addict, who regularly used cocaine,
LSD and marijuana, in an extraordinary attack in State Parliament.
The Independent Upper House MP and a staunch supporter of the heroin trial,
Mr Richard Jones, used the cover of parliamentary privilege to also claim
Akerman sexually harassed young female employees of News Ltd while working
in Washington.
Mr Jones attacked Akerman for his published opposition to the trial,
branding him a hypocrite who "was a drug addict and still is a drug addict
on legal drugs this very day".
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Subj: McCaffey reports on anti-drug work
From: Allison Bigelow <whc@cnw.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:49:04 -0400
File: v97.n229.a11
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a11.html
Pubdate: September 17,1997
Source: Skagit Valley Herald
Contact: greglamm@newswest.com
McCaffey reports on anti-drug work
WASHINGTON
Mexico is making advances in anti-drug efforts, but it has a long fight
ahead as it takes on traffickers who supply the majority of illegal drugs
consumed by Americans, the Clinton administration's drug policy director says.
Barry McCaffrey also touted eight X-ray machines the United States is
deploying on the U.S.-Mexico border, saying their ability to spot drugs in
trucks will push traffickers elsewhere - to sea or air shipments - and
reduce border violence.
But law enforcement crackdowns in foreign countries and careful border
searches won't cure America's drug ills or the violence the illicit trade
spawns here and abroad, he said.
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Subj: AG vows to expose tobacco 'lies, secrets'
From: Art Smart <i157784@ims-hou.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 16:49:18 -0400
File: v97.n229.a12
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a12.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: Houston Chronicle, page 29A
Contact: viewpoints@chron.com
AG vows to expose tobacco 'lies, secrets'
Morales gives a sneak preview of state's opening statement at trial this month
By JOHN W. GONZALEZ
Copyright 1997 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau
AUSTIN -- In a sneak preview of the opening statement he will make to a
federal jury in Texarkana, Attorney General Dan Morales on Thursday
criticized tobacco industry executives as liars who refuse to admit they
have harmed Texans' health and lured children into nicotine addiction.
Morales released documents that he said provide new legal proof there was a
concerted effort to turn children into smokers by launching tobacco
products with root beer and fruit juice flavors.
"When Texas is finished with the tobacco industry, the public will know the
truth about the lies, the research and the secrets," Morales said. "When
this trial is complete, the dark side of this evil empire will finally have
been exposed."
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Subj: Study challenges myth of Britain's rising drug crisis
From: Zosimos <mjc1947@cyberclub.iol.ie>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 18:48:35 -0400
File: v97.n229.a13
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v97.n229.a13.html
Pubdate: Fri, 19 Sep 1997
Source: Daily Telegraph
Contact: et.letters@telegraph.co.uk
Study challenges myth of Britain's rising drug crisis
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
FEARS that Britain is in the grip of an escalating drug crisis could be
based on a myth, the Government said last night.
The largest survey of drug misuse yet conducted showed that drug taking was
not part of normal behaviour for the vast majority of young people. The
survey also suggested that the number of people aged 16 to 29 using drugs
had stabilised, with no significant increase between 1994 and 1996.
Drug taking also appeared to be dramatically on the wane in London -
especially among teenagers using so called "dance drugs" such as ecstasy -
but was still increasing in the North and the Midlands.
Ministers conceded that the figures remained "worryingly high", with about
one in two people admitting to have experimented with drugs at some point
in their lives and one in four taking drugs in the last year.
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