Fatal Distraction: the War on Drugs in the Age of Islamic Terror
Supplemental Notes and Materials

This section of the site contains notes and materials that are included to provide additional information pertaining to Fatal Distraction which at this writing, in the Spring of 2006, is in the process of being released by Unlimited Publishing LLC of Bloomington, Indiana. That company has taken on the task of publishing three of my books, which it calls The Trebach Collection. The first was The Great Drug War, Second Edition, which was published in 2005. The second will be this book, which the third will be the second edition of The Heroin Solution, forthcoming in 2006.

The first item in this section is the Index to Fatal Distraction. I know this is not the usual practice in traditional publishing endeavors but times are changing. Because of the need to save space, it was determined to place the index here. This was deemed a better alternative than no index at all, a practice often followed now in the publishing industry.

The other items in this section either relate directly to some specific section of the text or they provide additional information on many of the subjects dealt with therein.



Index to Fatal Distraction
Index

Index

 

Addiction, 27-30, 32, 44, 46, 139; as a choice, 60, 383n; disease theory of, 106-107;maintenance of, 138, 192, 201, 248-255; rates of, 145-151, 171, 224-227, 236, 265; as "soldiers disease", 167-169; treatment of, 203, 255-257; to prohibition, 311, 315, 343. See also Drugs

Addicts, 20, 25-26, 33, 37, 39, 44, 100, 321, 359; as criminals 27, 29, 140, 174, 260-264; and HIV, 29-31; drug: characteristics of, 153-157, 160-161, 164, 166, 181-182, 245-247. See also Crime; Drug Treatment

Adler, William M., 101, 386n

Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence, 391n

AIDS, 44, 97, 100, 102-103, 116, 216, 224, 256, 269. See also HIV

Alaska: drug policy in, 119, 207, 330-331, 391n, 398n

Alcohol, 18, 25-26, 59, 61-62, 164, 182-183, 234-241, 246-247, 261, 263, 296; as legalization model, 35, 93, 125, 192, 194-196, 199, 202-203, 205, 209-210, 321, 323, 327, 336-337, 359, 361-362; prohibition of, 65, 133, 138, 184-185, 189, 193-194, 229-230, 243, 260, 354. See also Driving

Ali, Hirsi,292-294, 305

Allen, Richard V., 187, 390n

Alexander, Bruce K., 103-107, 209, 386n

Allah, 278, 292

Allah Knows Best, 289

Almoudi, Abdurahaman, 284-285

Al Qaeda, 268, 273-274, 277, 306-310, 315-316, 373-374, 397n

American Pharmaceutical Association, 148

American University, 18, 25, 32, 52-53, 106, 188, 246, 286, 331, 341, 375; Institute on Drugs, Crime, and Justice in England, 27-28

Anderson, Kenneth, 286

Anslinger, Harry J., 142

Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, 23, 42

Associated Press, 185

Atlantic magazine, 227

Australia: drug policy in, 28, 122-124, 157, 182

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November 12, 2006
MORE BIZARRE BEHAVIOR ON THE UK DRUG TREATMENT FRONT

It seemed inevitable but it is still sad to report that the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom has issued its verdict in the massive case against Dr. Colin Brewer and other Stapleford Centre doctors. In effect almost all were found "guilty" although that is not the term used in such proceedings. The GMC erased Dr. Brewer's name from the medical register, which means he is no longer licensed to practice medicine in the United Kingdom. In my view, his greatest offenses were that he was an outspoken critic of some standard UK practices, that he prescribed drugs at a higher level than many elite doctors, and that -- horror of horrors -- he functioned as a private doctor who accepted pay for his services. As can be seen below, at the same time that they destroyed what was left of his medical career, the GMC praised his contributions and criticized the shortcomings of many standard National Health Service addiction treatment clinics.

I wrote about my respect for Dr. Brewer and for the work of Stapleford in my latest book, Fatal Distraction: The War on Drugs in the Age of Islamic Terror. As I stated there, the UK had developed a schizophrenic approach to addiction treatment. Its medical elite allows many doctors to follow their medical instincts and wisdom in treating addicts and destroys others who are doing virtually the same thing. I will write more about this situation soon. Below are some of the statements Dr. Brewer just issued .

As a general proposition, in my view, most doctors in the UK still have great freedom to treat addicts in rational ways. That is why I call this decision bizarre.
Message from Dr Colin Brewer
Colin Brewer's Final Statement to the GMC


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by Daniel Pipes

Arrest Rates Table 1

Notes to Table 1

Arrest Rates

IAL Resolution

Canadian Article (Apr. 2004)
Blinded by Drugs
Dan Gardner
Editorial
Ottawa Citizen
April 24, 2004

"Last week the U.S. commission examining the Sept. 11 attacks issued a statement of facts that helps explain why the Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to stop the al-Qaeda plot. Counter-terrorism just wasn't a priority for the FBI, the commission said. Instead, the bureau was too busy fighting the never-ending war on drugs."
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