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...Prevention (CDC) last year documented for the first time that one of the many viral components that make up a common flu strain, known as H1--which also happens to be a descendant of the same virus that fueled the pandemic of 1918--was resistant to the popular antiviral drug oseltamivir, a.k.a. Tamiflu. In the flu season--October to May--of 2007-08, 12% of circulating H1 subtypes were resistant to the drug; this season, 98% of them are. Interestingly, the mutation does not appear to be driven by overuse of the drug. In fact, rates of oseltamivir resistance...
...setting a good example: Prisons are not used to house users, but to deal with trafficking and the crimes attendant to the black market. Streamlined criminal procedures have greatly improved the performance and reduced the cost of taking traffickers out of the equation...Sweden can now boast annual drug use rates less than half the average in West and Central Europe. (Read "The Way Station for Europe's Cocaine...
...standard law-enforcement methods have failed: Gang members, whose whole life revolves around conflict with the police, value prison as an expected part of the life cycle, and see death as a price to be paid for posthumous respect. [Drug-related] arrests and seizures do not have a lasting impact on them...
...what can be done: The drug trade tends to infect societies through open wounds: derelict neighborhoods and out of control regions run by war/drug lords. Situational crime prevention instruments can heal these wounds and make them inhospitable to the drug barons. The emphasis in each case is to regain control over marginalized areas, to draw them in rather than push them out of society...
Costa's kill-two-birds-with-one-stone approach to drug control focuses on changing the economic and social conditions in areas susceptible to drugs and drug-related crime, which will in turn provide a long-term solution to the drug epidemic. The approach includes social reintegration of addicts and dealers, firmer legislation against slum real-estate lords who allow illicit activity to continue on their grounds, and the general transformation of the "urban wastelands" that have become breeding grounds for the drug market. Along with trying to motivate UN member states into action on this initiative, the paper...