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...over the years, maintenance treatment with methadone and other synthetic opiates like buprenorphine has proved successful - more than any other heroin-addiction therapy - in getting people off illicit drugs and lowering HIV transmission rates, crime and death among users. That success, in part, has got researchers wondering whether addiction to other drugs - namely to the stimulants cocaine and methamphetamine - could be curbed in the same way, by substituting a chemically similar alternative. (See the Year in Health, from...
...British study followed 60 stimulant addicts who were treated with dexamphetamine in a Cornwall clinic. Doctors tracked how well these patients fared compared with 120 heroin addicts being treated with methadone, and found an equivalent reduction in illicit drug use and drug injection. In both groups, about two-thirds of patients stopped injecting over 10 months...
...about curbing gringo demand for cocaine and the smuggling of Yanqui guns to Mexican drug gangs. "The truth is, Mexico would not be at the center of cartel activity, or be experiencing this level of violence," Garza said in San Antonio, "were the U.S. not the largest consumer of illicit drugs and the main supplier of weapons to cartels...
...national arms industries, refitting weapons from their stocks and manufacturing new weapons of their own. Those industries have taken off in recent years. Ukraine has about 6 million light weapons from Soviet stockpiles, and has modernized tanks, anti-aircraft missiles and other weaponry, says Hugh Griffiths, an expert on illicit weapons at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. A dramatic example of Ukraine's reach is playing out off the Horn of Africa, where a major shipment of Ukrainian weapons, including 33 T-72 tanks, was hijacked by Somali pirates and remains a vexing military and diplomatic problem...
...leaves and chemicals for making cocaine were found in one Shining Path camp. He accused Shining Path allies of propagating false allegations that soldiers had caused the disappearance of 11 people. The guerrillas and their associates, said the general, fear that a long-term military presence will destroy the illicit drug business and their livelihoods. Said Guibovich: "I can categorically say that there have been no illegal detentions, no disappearances. This is a smear campaign by narco-terrorists to get us to leave the zone. It is psychological warfare...