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...paper, published by Cato in April, found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled...
...olds fell from 2.5% to 1.8% (although there was a slight increase in marijuana use in that age group). New HIV infections in drug users fell by 17% between 1999 and 2003, and deaths related to heroin and similar drugs were cut by more than half. In addition, the number of people on methadone and buprenorphine treatment for drug addiction rose to 14,877 from 6,040, after decriminalization, and money saved on enforcement allowed for increased funding of drug-free treatment as well...
...natural resources has been so thoroughly squelched in some industries that it may not fully recover anytime soon. Francisco Blanch, head of commodities research for Merrill Lynch in London, says he doesn't expect overall demand will return to 2007 levels until 2011 at the earliest. "Over a number of years we will get back to supply constraints," says Blanch, but "it won't happen over the next six to 12 months...
...Organization to keep track of any additional cases to determine whether and when a warning of a pandemic would be warranted. In preparation for such a scenario, the CDC has created a seed stock of a vaccine against the swine flu, which could be pushed into production should the number of cases jump significantly. The CDC did not specify what the threshold for vaccine production would...
Cholera is confined to mostly urban areas; in rural areas, hunger and HIV are wreaking havoc. "We have not had a decent harvest for years now," says a government official in the rural Chirumanzu district, about 250 km south of Harare. "A number of deaths of people starving have been recorded here." The official adds, "Had it not been for donor organizations, the situation could have gone out of hand. The other problem is that with the high prevalence of HIV in this country, hunger has to be fought. Those taking [anti-retroviral medications (ARVs)] need to have nutritious food...