Budget Drug

Drug-control agency comes under fire as UK's cocaine use increases
The Independent on Sunday; 12/27/2009; 720 words; ...crime gangs for every 15 in its budget. "We also need some mechanism...also tasked with disrupting drug-smuggling operations, seized...quantifiable" amounts of drugs rose from 1,487 in 2006...statistics showed cannabis to be the drug most regularly seized in England...by a fifth. Discoveries of ...

GOP lawmakers change tune on costly health plans
AP Online; 12/26/2009; 1227 words; ...the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office for support. By contrast...deficit-financed prescription drug benefit to Medicare. The program...simply added to the federal budget deficit." The pending...ended his presidency with a budget surplus. But it soon was wiped...

Health vote doesn't end the ill will in U.S. Senate ; More than a generation of partisan polarization reaches peak in Congress
International Herald Tribune; 12/26/2009; 1414 words; ...Senate voted with most Republicans to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare. "It certainly is a culmination...billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The budget office estimates that the bill would provide coverage...

Deal is struck on firetruck upkeep ; Union to permit hire of mechanics
The Boston Globe; 12/26/2009; 1058 words; ...keep several dozen positions safe from budget cuts. "This agreement is not just good...insistence that firefighters agree to random drug and alcohol testing. The union has refused...have yet to be implemented include random drug and alcohol testing, requiring firefighters...

R.I. lawmakers to consider loosening marijuana laws
The Boston Globe; 12/26/2009; 619 words; ...prohibitions have decreased drug use, caused corruption among...changes to Rhode Island's drug laws, but members will hear...fine and confiscation of the drug rather than a crime carrying...what they consider more harmful drugs and interfere with their ability...Island faces a $220 million ...