ANTH106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Central Asia, Cash Flow, Golden Crescent
31 May 2018
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Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure and Profits
Vancouver, Canada
- After nearly a century of hard line policy – Vancourver clinic radical approach – 2003
exemption from Canada drug laws – inject drugs without law
- 600-900 visits a day
- Marginised population – suspisicions and resistant around services
- Interactions with police, hostipal, welfare officiters not psotive –
- Homeless – day they’re ot goig to e sik o elfare day
- HIV risk and OD – clinic not to turn anyone away – condemns people to use unsafe if
they do
- By providing a safe place for users to inject – inside treatment is a public hleath issue
= harm reduction
- Thomas – user of opiates – can purchase opiates here – to buy something – uses that
as his medication
- Does’t look at it as additio – giving them a break from themselves – but it comes
back to bite you
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- Some people addicted and some not
- Bloodstream – hits receptors – not everyone has them the same way
- 50 people in gym for weekend – half never want, other half best weekend and
interested in getting more
- Stories of people did’t get ito troule util deorse, depressed – psychologival
aspect – If lived without drugs not a problem
- Right brain, right place and right time to devlop addiction
- In community overwhelmed with addiction – the supply of it
- Afghan borders poor – vast and mountainous country – very difficult for US to over
all those areas
- Mission for drug enforcement – keep drugs from reaching America shores and stop
Taliban funding war with US with opium – income derived from herion 100 million to
500 million a year – very sig. amount from taxation and gets them support b/c
failitatig liilhood of people you a’t ake oey ay other ay
- With that money they arm and organise themselves
- More than holding their own and their tactics threaten to defea
- Would’t e ale to do this ithout heroie
- UN office on drugs and crime – UNODC – UN chirs helping tagits plug opium pipline –
cheques get signed and UN money ends up where its supposed to go
- Bilateral assists from US – UN commission
- Borderline divided by three players.
- 1 k orderlie that they a’t otrol all
- Drugs come from central part of Afganistan
- 5-20 dollars per month salaray for guards – risking their lives for $20
- Is this a winnable war? Glass half full, spending a lot of money – US – optimistic –
operations increased 116%, seizures going up, backyard of some of the most
powerful war lords in the world
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Document Summary
After nearly a century of hard line policy vancourver clinic radical approach 2003 exemption from canada drug laws inject drugs without law. Marginised population suspisicions and resistant around services. Homeless day they"re (cid:374)ot goi(cid:374)g to (cid:271)e si(cid:272)k o(cid:374) (cid:449)elfare day. Hiv risk and od clinic not to turn anyone away condemns people to use unsafe if. Interactions with police, hostipal, welfare officiters not psotive they do. By providing a safe place for users to inject inside treatment is a public hleath issue. Thomas user of opiates can purchase opiates here to buy something uses that as his medication. Does(cid:374)"t look at it as addi(cid:272)tio(cid:374) giving them a break from themselves but it comes back to bite you. Bloodstream hits receptors not everyone has them the same way. 50 people in gym for weekend half never want, other half best weekend and interested in getting more.
