Drug Addiction Slowing Down: UN Report
...p the drug producers and traffickers. The highest priorities in the fight against drugs should be prevention, helping people free themselves from drug dependence, and getting them back into society, he said. "It is encouraging to see a growing realization that drug addiction is an illness that can be preven...Plan to Contain Drug Resistant TB Launched-WHO
...his response plan identifies costs, milestones and priorities for health services that will continue to have an impact beyond its two-year time line. The plan, called the Global MDR-TB and XDR-TB Response Plan 2007-2008, also jumpstarts efforts towards reaching a 2015 goal of providing access to drugs and test......furloughs, accusing them of dragging their feet on priorities he asked them to consider. Those include massive new funding for public school programs, transportation and alternative energy, as well as measures to cut health care costs. The spending plan was estimated to be around $27 billion.Republicans conte...