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With prescription drug prices rising at more than twice the rate of inflation, the drug industry is being subjected to more scrutiny than ever before. The results have been more than troubling. As with all corruption though, it exists because we the people allow it to exist.From 1997 to 2001, U.S. drug sales rose 20 percent e... More..

Health & Fitness > Health Care As the nation debates health care reform, whose voice is being heard the most: Citizens, politicians or special interests?

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With the heated debate over government health care reform raging, while our insurance premiums and co-pays are rapidly rising, the number one culprit behind out-of-control health care costs is being ignored. Along with a host of other crimes, illegal aliens are stealing health care for which the rest of us must pay. The e... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center What role should the US play in reducing the production of illicit drugs-such as cocaine and heroin-in places like Bolivia and Afghanistan?

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In 2000, the Taliban banned opium production in Afghanistan, as it became illegal to grow poppies. Any farmer caught cultivating the cash crop would be severely punished;probably by death. By the middle of 2001, there was basically no opium produced in Afghanistan, though that nation usually led the world in production of the... More..

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