Program to Give Free Drug Needles to Curb Disease

Program to give free drug needles to curb disease
CARSON CITY (AP) — The statistics are shocking: Seventy percent of illegal-injection drug users will contract hepatitis C from the use of dirty needles. About 10 percent will acquire HIV. The lifetime cost of caring for a hepatitis patient is $ 500,000 … Read more on Elko Daily Free Press

Los Zetas' Southward Expansion
Patterns in cocaine seizures illustrate this trend. According to the UNODC, between 2000 and 2005, the amount of cocaine seized in Central America was approximately the same as the amount confiscated in Mexico. By 2011, cocaine seized in Central … Read more on Forbes

Profit, prison, and privatization
For example, powder cocaine is less severely punished than crack cocaine, and contrary to usage statistics, those arrested for crack violations are disproportionately black, while powder cocaine maintains a reputation of being a drug for wealthy whites. Read more on MinnPost.com (blog)