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...Substance Abuse are "not a reliable estimate." The survey describes a near doubling of prescription-drug abuse from 1992 to 2003, but because of changes in the way federal statistics were gathered in the past decade, no such claim can be made, the spokesman said. Last month the libertarian Cato Institute issued a report, Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers: The DEA's War on Prescription Painkillers, charging that the agency exaggerated reports of OxyContin deaths and overdoses. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like aspirin and ibuprofen, which can lead to intestinal bleeding, cause 35 times more deaths a year than...
...Sources: Cato Institute (2); Washington Post (2); Pew Hispanic Center (2); New York Times...
Michael Tanner is director of the Cato Institute Project on Social Security Choice...
...accounts in Chile that is widely regarded as a success. In contrast to Britain's plan, Chile's is compulsory and presents workers with only a handful of conservative, income-oriented investment options. The architect of Chile's plan, José Piñera, is now a co-chairman of the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Choice and has conferred with Bush on the subject...
...Social Security system--in theory welcoming millions of the working class into the investing class--might aid G.O.P. mastermind Karl Rove's plan to fashion a permanent Republican majority. "What does it mean when every truck driver and waitress becomes a stockholder?" asks Michael Tanner, an economist at the Cato Institute and one of the architects of the private-account movement. "You can create inheritable wealth for low-income people and minorities. If you turn those truck drivers and waitresses into stockholders, they vote and behave very differently...