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At the same time, the war on drugs has fallen short of its key economic goal: to make drugs more expensive, and therefore make them less accessible to drug users.

Michael Botticelli, acting director of ONDCP, wrote, "This Strategy … rejects the notion that we can arrest and incarcerate our way out of the nation's drug problem."

The idea is to cut down the supply, so drugs are more expensive and, therefore, less affordable and accessible for a drug user.

To be sure, analysts doubt that France would risk an international crisis by pulling the plug on a long-awaited deal. But it has certainly positioned itself as the Western country pushing hardest to satisfy the concerns of Iran's regional antagonists, Israel and the Gulf Arab nations, which oppose a deal that leaves Tehran in possession of the nuclear infrastructure that could, in theory, allow it to build a bomb. (To do so, it would have to break out of an international agreement and circumvent the stringent monitoring regime currently in place.)

hey also want the U.N. Security Council to oversee Iran's nuclear program rather than the International Atomic Energy Agency, as is currently the case, and argue that sanctions should be repealed only gradually once Western powers are satisfied by Iran's compliance.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) network of 11 laboratories in nine countries around the world worked to combat the disease.

Transparency and a commitment to sharing the best available scientific information led to a better outcome.

Clear and effective communication among scientists, policy makers, and the public helped avoid SARS deaths in the United States.

counterterrorism operations there despite the apparent takeover by Houthi fighters.

American counterterrorism efforts had not abated.