Prescription drugs are the problem now. And the U.S. pharmaceutical companies are no doubt profiting from it. (And these drugs ain't cheap!) See here.
An analysis of autopsies in 2007 released this week by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission found that the rate of deaths caused by prescription drugs was three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined! . . .
Law enforcement officials said that the shift toward prescription-drug abuse, which began here about eight years ago, showed no sign of letting up and that the state must do more to control it. “The abuse has reached epidemic proportions,” said Lisa McElhaney, a sergeant in the pharmaceutical drug diversion unit of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. “It’s just explosive.”
AP story on Bolivia here.
Bolivia's president says he is suspending operations by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as relations between the two countries worsen.
President Evo Morales accuses the DEA of involvement in regional anti-government protests. U.S. officials have denied promoting such actions.
Morales announced the cutoff in DEA operations in a speech Saturday in which he said his government has wiped out more than 5,000 hectares (12,300 acres) of illegally planted coca this year. Coca is the raw material for cocaine, but Bolivians use it in its natural form as a traditional tea or chew.
Bolivia expelled the U.S. ambassador last month, and Washington later put Bolivia on an anti-narcotics blacklist that cuts trade preferences.
Let the Bolivians drink their tea. Worry about what's going on here now.
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