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...willing to entertain the idea that the U.S should be prepared to use force selectively to solve regional problems like Bosnia and Haiti, he quickly became a defender of General Powell's all-or-nothing view that in places where the U.S. is not prepared to commit the full extent of its power, it should not commit...
...borders have caused cocaine and heroin prices to decline dramatically -- and heroin use, which seemed to be dying out, is rising precipitously. Casual drug use is down, but at least 2 million Americans remain hard-core consumers. At least 60% of violent crime is associated with drug use. Addicts commit 15 times as many robberies and 20 times as many burglaries as criminals not on drugs. Approximately 70% of the nation's 1.4 million prisoners have drug problems, but only 1% of federal inmates and about 15% of state prisoners receive adequate treatment. Yet well- structured, prison-based antidrug programs...
Outside, the situation is deplorable. At present there are only about 12,000 long-term, residential drug-treatment beds available in the U.S. The irony is obvious: without an increase in drug treatment outside the criminal-justice system, most addicts will have to commit a crime before being helped. The cost of community-based residential treatment ($18,000 annually a participant) is still less than the cost of housing a prisoner, but "it's going to take clear presidential leadership for people to realize how cost-effective that can be," says Schumer. The signs are not encouraging. Widespread drug treatment...
...guns are dangerous consumer products," said Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala in a speech last Thursday before the American Trauma Society. She points to studies that have found that having a gun in the home makes it five times as likely that someone in the household will commit suicide, and three times as likely that someone will be murdered. Salt Lake City Mayor DeeDee Corradini recalls a young mother she met during Salt Lake City's gun amnesty and buyback program: "A mother with four young children in tow came. She said, 'This gun has been used once...
...Secretary Shalala said gun violence should be considered "a public-health crisis that requires public-health solutions," like polio in the 1950s and AIDS today. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders asked Americans not to buy toy guns for children this Christmas. "We know that toy guns were used to commit 30,000 robberies in the last five years," she said, "and many times our children feel that real guns are just like toys...