Civil liberties, private sector perspectives, and public health and safety issues are critical in an attempt to establish a national policy on mandatory testing for AIDS and drug abuse. This latest volume in the Brookings Dialogues on Public Policy is the product of two Brookings conferences on AIDS and drug testing. The first conference was held in Washington, DC, October 20-21, 1987, and the second in Racine, Wisconsin, March 8-10, 1988.Participants attempted to confront the intense political controversy and public fear engendered by the spread of AIDS and the use of illicit drugs in the Untied States. Though no single policy recommendation emerged from the meeting, the experts reached some points of consensus on possible approaches to testing that would respect the needs, values, and circumstances of affected communities.We are grateful to the countless individuals who participated in the planning meetings and studies that preceded the conferences.We are also thankful for the encouragement of Brookings trustee James D. Wolfensohn to examine the policy issues connected with drug abuse in the United States.

Toward a National Policy on Drug And AIDS Testing (Dialogues on Public Policy)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Falco, Mathea

Cikins, Warren I.

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Brookings Inst Pr

Winning the Drug War: A National Strategy

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Priority Pr Pubns

Winning the Drug War: A National Strategy (A Twentieth Century Fund Paper)

<p>The foreign interdiction and source country programs on which the United States has spent $25 billion since 1981 are intended to reduce domestic drug abuse. To examine this intersection of domestic and international interests, the Council on Foreign Relations convened an Independent Task Force to review U.S. international drug strategy and to suggest possible future directions. The bipartisan Task Force—chaired by Mathea Falco, President of Drug Strategies, and former Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters—included experts with backgrounds in diplomacy, law enforcement, economics, development, public health, judicial institutions, human rights, and multinational business.</p>

Rethinking International Drug Control: New Directions for U. S. Policy

Council on Foreign Relations

A genuine democracy movement lives in Burma, but it continues to be brutally suppressed by the ruling military government. In 1990, the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led by Aung San Suu Kyi-won 82 percent of the seats in a multiparty parliamentary election. The regime ignored the elections and the democratically elected representatives never took office. Aung San Suu Kyi, who was imprisoned after violent government-orchestrated attacks on democracy supporters on May 30, 2003, has spent more than half of the past fourteen years under house arrest. Burma remains one of the most tightly controlled dictatorships in the world. Recognizing that democracy and the NLD cannot survive in Burma without the help of the United Sates and the international community, the Council-sponsored Independent Task Force on Burma sounds a clarion call for change. In response to the governments recent crackdown on the democratic opposition, the Task Force urges the United Nations to call for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners, and to impose sanctions on Burma, including bans both on new investment in Burma and on the importation of goods produced in Burma. The Task Force report also offers specific recommendations for U.S. policy in four areas: humanitarian assistance; promoting democracy, human rights and the rule of law; narcotics control policy; and refugees, migrants, and internally displaced persons. Led by Mathea Falco, president of Drug Strategies and former assistant secretary of state for international narcotics matters, this bipartisan Task Force comprises members with a wide range of experience in international business, law, government, media, academia, publichealth, and human rights advocacy, among other areas. Its recommendations are intended to inform U.S. government action as well as to increase U.S. cooperation with other countries, especially in Asia, to bring about a long overdue political, economic, and social transformation of Burma.

Burma: Time for Change: Report of an Independent Task Force Sponsored by the Council of Foreign Relations (Council on Foreign Relations (Council on Foreign Relations Press))

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