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Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The United States has been providing assistance to Colombia since the early 1970s to help reduce illicit drugs. In 1999, the Colombian government introduced Plan Colombia--program that, among other things, proposed reducing illicit drug activities by 50 percent over 6 years. In fiscal years 2000-03 alone, the United States provided more than $2.5 billion in counternarcotics assistance. Despite this aid, Colombia remains the world's leading producer and distributor of cocaine and a major source of the heroin used in the United States. This testimony discusses the status of U.S. counternarcotics assistance to the Colombian Army and for a U.S.-supported Colombian police aerial eradication program. It also addresses challenges Colombia and the United States face in sustaining these programs."

There are three principal reasons for undertaking the present
paper. First, although all the dimensions of diffusion of drug abuse are
still uncertain and the existence and extent of Drug Abuse Networking
(DAN) is certainly not the only factor determining the likelihood of the
spread of drug abuse. Nevertheless, one of the prime modes of its spread
is through DAN. The extent of DAN and the diffusion of drug abuse in
society are closely related to each other [Brook, Nomura and Cohen
(1989, 1989a, 1992); Kornhauser (1978); Elliott, Huizinge and Dunford
(1983); Delemarre (1993)]. Second, the network analysis provides an
important instrumental element to deal with social problems and to
uncover the information for intervention in specific groups of the
community for the well-being of its members [Uehara (1990); Wellman and
Scott (1990); Brook, Nomura, and Cohen (1980); Coombs (1973); Thompson
(1973); Eggert, Thompson, Herting, Nicholas and Dicker (1994); Gould
(1991)]. Last, the issues of DAN's dynamics and its control have
received little attention in literature relevant to Pakistan or
elsewhere. It is also considered important from the policy point of view
to determine the dynamics of DAN in Pakistan on the basis of
experimental research.1 It is hoped that this paper will help in the
attainment of these goals. It addresses the subject from different
perspectives, but the major aim is to help develop and establish
methodologies in the context of Pakistan. Such research may help those
involved in making the policies and in controlling the diffusion of drug
abuse in Pakistan. In recent

Includes bibliographical references. ; Cline, S. The Federal drug abuse budget for fiscal year 1975.--Goldberg, P. and Akins, C. Issues in organizing for drug abuse prevention. ; Mode of access: Internet.

SUMMARY Improvements in health among the populations of developed countries have come about largely through improved living standards and public health measures, and the contribution of medicine has been relatively small. In addition, many medical techniques of the present have not yet been evaluated. A health policy giving due weight to broad social measures is applicable to both developed and underdeveloped countries, but this may involve change in underlying socioeconomic structures and so encounter political obstacles.RESUMEN Salud y sociedad: reflexiones sobre polḱticaLos progresos en salud registrados en los países desarrollados, derivan principalmente de mejoramientos en los niveles de vida y de medidas de salud pública, siendo relativamente pequeña la contribución de la medicina. Por otra parte, muchas de las técnicas médicas actuales no han sido evaluadas hasta ahora. Una política de salud que otorgue el debido peso a amplias medidas sociales, es aplicable tanto a los países desarrollados como a los subdesarrollados. No obstante, esto puede involucrar cambios en las estructuras socioeconómicas subyacentes y, en concecuencia, encontrar obstáculos políticos.RESUMES Santé et société: réflections sur le systèmeL'amélioration de la santé chez les populations des pays développés se doit, en grande partie, à un meilleur niveau de vie et aux mesures plus appropriées introduites par la santé publique, la médecine même n'y ayant joué qu'un rôle relativement minime. De plus, beaucoup de techniques médicales actuelles n'ont pas été adéquatement évaluées. Un programme de santé qui prend en juste considération l'ensemble des intérêts sociaux, serait applicable aussi bien pour les pays développés que sous‐développés, mais ceci peut entraîner un changement fondamental des structures socio‐économiques et rencontrer par conséquent des obstacles politiques.