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...Mauer raised the issue of sentencing for drug charges, which led to just as heated a debate...
...American public health catastrophe of this and perhaps any other century. Despite repeated entreaties from the Centers for Disease Control, Reagan adamantly refused to discuss the epidemic or permit any of his public health officials to do so. Implicit here was the perception that these people--gay men, intravenous drug users and immigrants (though of course the victims were never limited to these groups)--were acceptable victims. Their deaths, for Reagan, constituted a national cleansing...
...debate included discussion of drug arrests, racial bias in the criminal justice system and mandatory minimum sentences...
...only is this distinction illogical, according to Mauer, but 85 percent of those convicted for possessing crack cocaine are black. He added that although whites sell and use drugs at the highest rate, blacks and Latinos make up 92 percent of drug arrests...
Another new drug, called Remicade, approved just a few weeks ago by the FDA, is also the focus of a JAMA report. A medication called methotrexate has long been the treatment of choice for rheumatoid arthritis. It is not an NSAID, so it doesn't cause ulcers--but for many patients it stops working after a while. More than half the people who took Remicade along with methotrexate had at least a 20% reduction in arthritis symptoms, according to the study...