Think Again: Drugs [Part 3a: World Drug Policy]


	Think Again: Drugs [Part 3a: World Drug Policy]

zizzy

10-18-2007 12:37 AM

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war on drugs, public policy, ideology

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Looking to the United States as a role model for drug control is like
looking to apartheid-era South Africa for how to deal with race. The
United States ranks first in the world in per capita
incarceration––with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, but
almost 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. The number of people locked
up for U.S. drug-law violations has increased from roughly 50,000 in
1980 to almost 500,000 today; that’s more than the number of people
Western Europe locks up for everything. Even more deadly is U.S.
resistance to syringe-exchange programs to reduce HIV/AIDS both at home
and abroad. Who knows how many people might not have contracted HIV if
the United States had implemented at home, and supported abroad, the
sorts of syringe-exchange and other harm-reduction programs that have
kept HIV/AIDS rates so low in Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, and
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