America Brands Drugs Users "Vectors Of Contagion'

American plans to target occasional drug users through "compassionate coercion' coupled with "specialised pharmaceuticals' could mean the war on drugs moves inside people's brains, an alarming new report published by civil liberties group the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics (CCLE) claimed this week.

The report highlighted the development of vaccines to block the effects of drugs such as cocaine, though also examined the implications of America's 2003 National Drug Control Strategy, which compares occasional dabblers with cholera carriers.

"It (drug addiction) spreads because the vectors of contagion are not addicts in the streets but users who do not yet show the consequences of their drug habit," the US report declared last year.

"Last year, some 16 million Americans used an illegal drug on at least a monthly basis, while 6.1 million Americans were in need of treatment. The rest, still in the "honeymoon" phase of their drug-using careers, are "carriers' who transmit the disease to others who see only the surface of the fraud," they declared.
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