On June 9th Dr. Arnold Trebach gave a speech at the Chinese People’s Public Security University Ministry of Public Security in Beijing. The talk centered on drug policy in a country where the rapid spread of HIV due to needle sharing and whether or not to employ brain surgery as a cure for addiction are currently hot topics.

Trebach's message to the Chinese about the American experience was really quite simple; "The drug prohibition laws in my country were enacted with the sincere hope and the promise that they would reduce crime and disease. The results have been just the opposite. The drug laws have produced more crime and more disease."

Sudha Shenoy - 6/13/2006

Remember lobotomies? First developed, I believe, in _govt_ 'mental hospitals'.

Lisa Casanova - 6/12/2006

Brain surgery to cure addiction? The possibilities that opens up are truly nightmarish.