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Such reports underscore a dismaying fact: for nearly every item of good news on the drug front, there is at least one bad-news bulletin. While the U.S. has made significant progress in curbing casual drug use, it has made far less headway on the problems that most trouble the public, hard-core addiction and drug-related violence. Last year the National Institute on Drug Abuse estimated that the number of current users of illegal drugs had fallen to 14.5 million from 23 million in 1985. But while there was a dramatic decrease in the number of occasional users...
...drug crisis is to dry up demand. The conventional wisdom is that demand reduction means prevention, which in turn means education. Which means what, exactly? If it were simply a matter of conveying scientifically accurate information on posters and public-service announcements about the dangers of drug use, the national habit would already / be history. If it were a matter of poverty, the answer would be better schools and more opportunity. Eliminating poverty is a moral imperative that should need no additional justification. But the vast majority of drug users are not desperately poor; many in fact are fabulously wealthy...
...fact, in this age of video-driven, computer-written pop, you need a superstar to sell a song. Using studio personnel to supplement and even define a group sound is not an unheard-of practice in rock: Remember Phil Spector's use of other singers under the name of the Crystals, or Brian Wilson's hours in the studio concocting Beach Boys tracks? The new wrinkle is that the people who provide the sounds may not be exactly . . . well, charismatic on camera. Today's concert audiences want to see re-creations of videos, and that often demands intricate, high-energy...
...That trend is reflected in the rise in racial assaults recorded by Klanwatch, which monitors such crimes across the U.S. for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery. "The national recession has created general unrest," says director Danny Welch, "especially among white males vying for jobs they didn't use to have to compete...
...more than a third of its $1.2 billion in foreign exchange from cocaine, while Peru gets about a quarter of its $4 billion. Although both nations would like to cease their dependence on cocaine, they dare not press too strongly for fear of provoking civil unrest. In Bolivia the use of U.S. troops in 1986 to destroy drug labs sparked violent protests. Peru's new President, Alberto Fujimori, fearful of pushing recruits into the arms of the Shining Path guerrillas, has hesitated to unleash the full force of the military in interdiction efforts. Both countries prefer to tackle the coke...