In the main, though, what drives the new drug warriors is the same conviction that animated the old ones: the sincere, if mistaken, belief that cracking down on traffickers and users will make addiction go away.
And a 1998 report by Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, stunned New Jersey officials because it gave detailed breakdowns of the ethnic and racial backgrounds of sellers, traffickers and users alike.
In much of China's drug-treatment system, the report said beatings, forced labour and sexual abuse are the norm, especially in the south-western provinces of China where, because they are close to South-East Asia's Golden Triangle, traffickers and users are concentrated.
Police should make timely discoveries and punish drug traffickers, producers, users, brothel owners and decoys' (18).
During Thailand's 2003 'war on drugs,' over 2,500 alleged drug traffickers and users were extrajudicially killed [ 11].
Still, in shifting the focus of the police anti-drug efforts to traffickers instead of users, Portugal's Socialist government has joined a European trend toward treating users as victims who need help, not punishment.
Often masked assailants break into homes and kill people who have been tagged as drug traffickers or drug users.
"We want to separate the market: users from traffickers, marijuana from other drugs like heroin".
Those enmeshed in Mexico's thriving drug culture — users and traffickers alike — have an unusual relationship with the church.
"These scenarios offer a chance for leaders to replace indiscriminate detention and rights' abuses with approaches that distinguish between users and traffickers, and offer the community-based health services that work best for those in need".
