anthropod
08-19-2005, 06:36 PM
Can either listen to the audio or read the transcripts. Some interesting material, really:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4804031
"New Mexico's Espanola Valley is characterized by historic buildings such as the Santuario de Chimayo, which dates back to the early 1800s -- and by an entrenched heroin-abuse problem."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4730103
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4731706
" Writer Charles Bowden's new book A Shadow in the City tells the story of an undercover cop who spent 23 years on the front lines of America's drug war. That mission takes its toll on the protagonist, who sees drugs ruin lives -- those of users and dealers-- and loses faith in the fight. Alex Chadwick talks to Bowden about the book."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4804377
" The building battle over security along the United States' southern border is having political repercussions. Mexican President Vicente Fox told the United States on Tuesday to stop complaining about his government's record in the drug war and instead work with him in fighting powerful cocaine cartels."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4656751
"Producer Scott Carrier begins a three-part profile of Don Henry Ford, a convicted drug smuggler who made millions smuggling marijuana across the Texas border in the 1970s and 80s. He had run-ins with police and drug lords, was jailed and nearly executed, lied, cheated and stole -- and still continued to smuggle, even when nearly all his fellow criminals were either dead or in prison."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675137
"America's prisons are bursting at the seams with drug offenders. But the so-called "war on drugs" appears to have had little effect on the price and availability of illicit substances. Though drug use among whites is on par with blacks, African Americans account for nearly 60 percent of all U.S. drug convictions. For a closer look at what needs to be done to fight a fair and effective "war on drugs," Ed Gordon speaks with John Walters, director of the National Office of Drug Control Policy -- the nation's "drug czar.' "
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4804031
"New Mexico's Espanola Valley is characterized by historic buildings such as the Santuario de Chimayo, which dates back to the early 1800s -- and by an entrenched heroin-abuse problem."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4730103
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4731706
" Writer Charles Bowden's new book A Shadow in the City tells the story of an undercover cop who spent 23 years on the front lines of America's drug war. That mission takes its toll on the protagonist, who sees drugs ruin lives -- those of users and dealers-- and loses faith in the fight. Alex Chadwick talks to Bowden about the book."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4804377
" The building battle over security along the United States' southern border is having political repercussions. Mexican President Vicente Fox told the United States on Tuesday to stop complaining about his government's record in the drug war and instead work with him in fighting powerful cocaine cartels."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4656751
"Producer Scott Carrier begins a three-part profile of Don Henry Ford, a convicted drug smuggler who made millions smuggling marijuana across the Texas border in the 1970s and 80s. He had run-ins with police and drug lords, was jailed and nearly executed, lied, cheated and stole -- and still continued to smuggle, even when nearly all his fellow criminals were either dead or in prison."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4675137
"America's prisons are bursting at the seams with drug offenders. But the so-called "war on drugs" appears to have had little effect on the price and availability of illicit substances. Though drug use among whites is on par with blacks, African Americans account for nearly 60 percent of all U.S. drug convictions. For a closer look at what needs to be done to fight a fair and effective "war on drugs," Ed Gordon speaks with John Walters, director of the National Office of Drug Control Policy -- the nation's "drug czar.' "