Estimates are that Plan Colombia has contained the explosion of drug production despite better extraction techniques.
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Its president, Andres Pastrana, says the plan will cut drug production in half within five years.
When foreign troops arrived in Afghanistan in 2001, one of their goals was to stem drug production.
Our efforts to stop drug production in other countries have entangled us in corrupt governments like Mexico and Colombia.
The U.S. has foolishly restricted aid and military equipment to Colombia to use against drug production and smuggling only.
The notion that drug production can be eliminated in ten years seems quixotic.
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Great Lakes produces bromine-based flame retardants for plastic resins, polymer additives, fine chemicals for drug production and swimming pool chemicals.
In the coca-growing heartland of Colombia, the southern province of Putomayo, there was a massive drop in registered drug production.
This is good news since the U.S. has been able to curb drug production and shipment and such efforts need to be continued.
This methodology is more thorough than that used by America's Central Intelligence Agency, which provides the United States' government's estimates of drug production.
It is caused by a multi-layered, nearly 50-year-old conflict involving drug production and trafficking, communist guerrilla groups, right-wing successor paramilitary militias and the state.
It says there is "little evidence" that a recent increase in prison sentence lengths for drug production and supply has deterred dealers or affected availability.
The omnibus trade act also extended duty-free access for farm (and now textile) exports from the Andean countries (except Venezuela), seen as alternatives to illegal drug production.
The international community's engagement in Afghanistan is winding down, but analysts believe the issue of drug production is likely to remain an acute problem for decades to come.
Uribe's efforts have been focused on combating all the armed groups that control all facets of illicit drug production in Colombia, particularly the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
President Pastrana told journalists that his country did not feel isolated, but his fellow leaders are worried that war and drug production could spill over the border into their countries.
According to the lawsuit, Carlos Caballero was targeted because of his political positions against the rebel groups and because property he owned could be used to facilitate drug production and transport.
That is because prohibition makes drug production highly lucrative.
"We've not found that the concern of the international community is enough to translate into a commitment to ensure that Central America, which is a victim of drug production and consumption, can confront this scourge, " said Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
Beyond its function as a guide for shaping Federal policy, the National Drug Control Strategy is a useful resource for anyone interested in learning what is being done and what other work can be done to stop drug production and trafficking, prevent drug use, and provide care for those who are addicted.
Once a drug is in production, churning out one more little pill costs next to nothing.
In animal trials in 2001, Fibrogen's experimental drug cut collagen production by up to 70%.
Pharmaceutical companies are patenting all aspects of a drug's production, storage, packaging, route of administration and method of use.
The new margins will be based on each drug's production costs, ignoring research spending and other shared overheads, which far exceed the manufacturing outlay for new medicines.
The cardiology groups' guidelines advise disclosing any drug company involvement in production of a paper.
In reality, spraying has damaged the fumigated areas, but smarter planting (and the expanding international demand for the drug) is stimulating production.
How would making the proposed changes to the design and production of the drug make it safer for the environment?
Despite the drug war, total coca production is more than enough to meet demand, and the flow of cocaine is unstaunched.
Bulriss also wants to build Great Lakes' fine chemicals business, which does the increasingly outsourced complex chemical production work for drug companies.
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