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Second, drug development is geared toward maximizing profit, not social benefit, which skews efforts directed at the creation of medicines that are essential to human welfare.
Because the poor have so little money to spend, drug companies, under current arrangements, have little incentive to do research on the diseases that afflict them.
Drug companies argue that high prices are necessary to fund research and development.
Yet, in America and most of the world, drug prices are still exorbitant and the spread of knowledge is tightly limited.
While this system does provide incentives for certain kinds of research by making innovation profitable, it allows drug companies to drive up prices, and the incentives do not necessarily correspond to social returns.
That way, the power of competitive markets can ensure that, once a drug is developed, it is made available at the lowest possible price - not at an inflated monopoly price.
Individuals given the drug were less willing to sacrifice an individual to save the lives of several others.
In October 2007, Cherkesov (now chief of one of the most obscure and powerful services, the Federal Anti-Drug Administration) published another essay in which he lamented his colleagues' degradation: warriors had turned into traders, he complained.
Profits for drug traffickers downstream will be almost 20 times that amount.
Perversely, some provincial governors and government officials are themselves major players in the drug trade.
Within Afghanistan, drug addiction is rising.
In traditional Western European markets, health officials should brace for a rise in the number of deaths from drug overdoses, as this year's bumper opium crop will lead to higher-purity doses of heroin.
It is time for the Afghan government to name, shame, and sack corrupt officials, arrest major drug traffickers and opium landlords, and seize their assets.
Putting major drug traffickers behind bars at the new maximum-security prison at Pul-i-Charki, near Kabul, would be a good start.
Sendero, which supplemented its income with drug production and timber smuggling, deliberately chose drought-weakened and deforested mountain villages as the stronghold of its insurgency.
They are armed and work with the backing of drug and emerald smugglers - and often of local officials.
The heroin trade would not be booming if Western governments were serious about combating drug consumption.