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Introduction: Battling the Drug Leviathan
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CURRENT ISSUES
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10 / 1986 |
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Dutch Police capture a huge heroin haul shipped from Afghanistan by a Soviet freighter. …A Colombian judge frees an international drug trafficker despite extradition requests from the United States. …A U.S. Drug Enforcement agent is kidnapped and assaulted by Mexican police while the president of both countries are meeting to discuss joint drug control projects. …An eradication campaign that targeted jungle cocaine laboratories in Bolivia apparently proved a big bust - but not of the drug kingpins.
In addition to these recent news events, some statistics paint an ominous picture of the effect of drugs on society in the United States:
· Some 65 percent of Americans entering the work force have used illicit drugs - 44 percent within the last year. Alcohol and drug use costs $100 billion in lost productivity annually. Approximately 19 percent of teenage Americans have used illicit drugs within the past year. Some 20 percent of the total work force uses illicit drugs.
· Several serious train wrecks involving substantial loss of life and property have been attributed by the National Transportation Safety Board to marijuana and alcohol use.
· Cocaine is the third most frequent cause of drug-related emergencies.
· In 1985, some 547 deaths were caused by cocaine - a tripling of the figure for 1981 (New York figures not included).
· Cocaine vendors garner some $15
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