tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74275073958755251832024-03-20T00:59:14.758-07:00DRUG PREVENTION NETWORK OF CANADASupporting abstinence-based Prevention and Treatment in the media, the community and Government.
LET'S GIVE RECOVERY THE RESPECT IT DESERVES!
David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.comBlogger265125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-54667628775655772022018-04-28T09:43:00.002-07:002018-04-28T09:43:21.842-07:00<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>The following excellent brief was presented by our DPNC Vice-President, Gwen Landolt, <span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">on April 19th to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee regarding Bill C-45 (marijuana).</span></i></span><br />
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and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">S</span>oc<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>nc<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>l <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ted<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> N</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">o</span>ns in<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>1<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">9</span>9<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">8</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>In<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span>ac<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>e ha<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e
a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>te<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>d o<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>30 <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>N<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>h
in <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">N</span>ew<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Y</span>ork<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>d <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>orl<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span><span lang="EN-US">ec<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>use <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>ork<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">UN</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>e are<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ili</span>ar<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>three<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>N
dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>l as a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">l</span>l
the <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">U</span>N <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">h</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>man<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>hts<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #212121; letter-spacing: -.1pt;">R</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #212121; letter-spacing: -.05pt;">EA</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #212121;">L<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;">W</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>men<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>as<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>os<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>ol<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>ed<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>N<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>gs ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ed<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> UN</span>G<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">AS</span>S 2<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">0</span>1<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">6</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>d
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n Apr<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span>l 2<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">0</span>16 <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span>n <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">N</span>ew<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Y</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>k<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">Ci</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> T</span>he p<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">u</span>rp<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>se<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>as <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ew<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>ffe<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;">pr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>ress<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> m</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>e in<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the
<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">m</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ementati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>N
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>tr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>on the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>orld dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g
pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>em<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>up<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the
ta<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>2<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">0</span>1<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">9</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>It<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nc<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>ed
an ass<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>sme<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ac<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">h</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>ements<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">c</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ll</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>es in co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>nter<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>orld
drug prob<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>em<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>fr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>ork<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>ree
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>te<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g
co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>rol
co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d o<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ted <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">N</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ns<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>tr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s.
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>T</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>as <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>rst<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ti</span>me in<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ty<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>rs th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>such<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">e</span>w<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g
tre<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es has t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>en<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ace.
<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">A</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>e <span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>ree <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nt<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>rn<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al
dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>trol<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>ere<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ir</span>med<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>orld <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>rs<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>ho
st<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>te<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">d</span>:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span><span lang="EN-US">h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>se<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> t</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>rn<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>e <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nc<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>es <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g
co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>rol
s<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>stem, emph<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>th
and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>are<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">u</span>ma<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nd as<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g
p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>rp<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>se <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>se<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> t</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">D</span><span lang="EN-US">uri<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>g th<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">g</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;">W</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">S</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">P</span>res<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>nt<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>N<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>Int<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>rn<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">N</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>rcotics<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>ol
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>mn<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>tr<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">w</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ch,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">“</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>nt<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>rn<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>se<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>n
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i<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">n</span></span><span lang="EN-US">ternat<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al
co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>rati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n dep<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">on</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">-</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>cal<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>us<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">”</span><span lang="EN-US">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span><span lang="EN-US">h<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>re is a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>son<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">h</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the
<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>orld <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>rs<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>da<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ce<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">UN</span>G<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">AS</span>S <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>n
2016<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">o</span>rsed<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g
tre<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">A</span>nton<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> M</span>ario <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>ost<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">E</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">x</span>ec<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e D<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>rector<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>N<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">O</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>ce
on<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">D</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
Cr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span>me (<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">UN</span>O<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">DC</span>), <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>fter<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>ffe<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> tr</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">s</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>an <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>rt<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">p</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span>sh<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>d
in the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">K</span>. n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>sp<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">T<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">h</span>e <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">O</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>erv<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-US">(<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">S</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">p</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>mb<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>5,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>2<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">0</span>1<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">0</span>) s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>ated:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">L</span><span lang="EN-US">e<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>on
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">d</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>se
ha<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e been<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>su<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>ces<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">l</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span>O<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> l</span>ast<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>e,
<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>orld o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>tp<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ne <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>nd
amph<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>tami<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">b</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>n
s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ili</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th
a re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>ucti<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n in<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>se
and op<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>ucti<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.85pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .35pt;">W</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">h</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s
a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nst<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>se
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">d</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>s,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>res<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>d be ma<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ed<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>N<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">D</span>rug<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ch i<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>e
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>cr<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n
of<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ssess<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
producti<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span><span lang="EN-US">he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>N <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">D</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>ere<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>rat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ed <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">b</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ll</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>s:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ps<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>ch<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>tr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">S</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ces<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">1988</span>:
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<span lang="EN-US">In add<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>rat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>ed<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>N
h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>man<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">t</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">y</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">D</span>ec<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ar<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on on<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> Ri</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n 199<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">1</span>. <span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">A</span>rt<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>33<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">D</span>ec<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">r</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>fo<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ll</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>s:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">S</span><span lang="EN-US">tates<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">P</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e, a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>str<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>soc<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>d educ<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>sur<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>s,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>pr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>tect<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>ch<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>dren<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>fr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>m
the <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">illi</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>use <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>rcotic<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ps<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>ch<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>tro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span>sta<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ces<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>as
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<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">illi</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">c</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>produ<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">c</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>tr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>ff<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span><span lang="EN-US">y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>rat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng
the<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">D</span>ec<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ar<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">R</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>hts<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">C</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>d,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n 199<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">1</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a
h<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>pr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>te<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>t
ch<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>dren<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>om<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">illi</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">g</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d pre<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the
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<span lang="EN-US">On <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">M</span>arch<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">7</span>-9,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>2<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">0</span>1<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">3</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>N <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">H</span>uman
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">R</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>hts<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>l<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>Ge<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>a <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">r</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>ed the <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">D</span>ec<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>arat<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on
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</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> C</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>nc<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>l a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span>pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>ed a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>rmed<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>he
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and sp<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ll</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>re<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>rred<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">A</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e 33 as<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>cess<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>ry<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>rote<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">c</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on
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</span>ch<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>dren<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nst<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">d</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g use a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span><span lang="EN-US">he<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ll</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l C-<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">4</span>5
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>cates<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a
is<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n
no<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>-c<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>mp<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ce <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th Ar<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e
33 <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">D</span>ec<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ar<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on on<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> Ri</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">d</span>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">S</span><span lang="EN-US">ecti<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n 2<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">Bil</span>l<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> C</span>-<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">4</span>5<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">d<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>rson
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</span>an<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">a</span>l
<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>ho <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>“b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">e</span>en
1<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">2</span></span><span lang="EN-US">-18 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">y</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>rs<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">S</span><span lang="EN-US">ecti<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n 8<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>(1)<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>(<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>)<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l
pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s:<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>ng
p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>rson<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>may<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><u style="text-underline: black;">p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ssess<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span></u>5<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>grams<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f
mariju<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>(<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>ten<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">)</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">S</span><span lang="EN-US">ecti<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n 9<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>(1)<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>(<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">b</span>)<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s:<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>a <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">y</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>rson<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> m</span>ay<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><u style="text-underline: black;">d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>str<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>te<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></u>up<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>5<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>gr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>ms<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f mariju<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>(<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>ten<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">)</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">S</span><span lang="EN-US">ecti<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n 12<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>(4)<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>(<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">b</span>)<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s:<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>pri<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>ate<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">o</span>mes<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> m</span>ay<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>row<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>up<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to
4<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>a
p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">l</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ts
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">wi</span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ut<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>sa<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span><span lang="EN-US">o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>se<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">q</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">C</span>-<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">4</span>5<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>n
12 to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>18 <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>rs<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>may<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>fre<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ssess,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>us<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>en
sh<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>mar<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na
up<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>5<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>ams<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>at<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>(10<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>s).<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>no rec<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>urse<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>en
ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>us<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">g</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">u</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>mar<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>A<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>d
can <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span>tera<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>e </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">ten<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nts<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>s’ stas<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">h</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>nd<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>fr<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ds,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>o ba<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>k<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">o</span>me,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>oth<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>te<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>,
</span><span lang="EN-US">h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>nd th<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">u</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>as<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>ften
as<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> w</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ts.<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l
d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>af<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">f</span>ect<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>ch<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ol
e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>rh<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">I</span><span lang="EN-US">f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">C</span>-<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">4</span>5
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</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>sse<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">d</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>da <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">l</span>l<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e <span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>ed to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>be
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</span>comp<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ce <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th
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U</span>N <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">D</span>ec<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>arat<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on on<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">R</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> C</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>as <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">w</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>l as<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>he t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>ree<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">d</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>trol<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">s</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u style="text-underline: black thick;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">N</span><span lang="EN-US">o N<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">o</span>tice<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> W</span>ith<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">dr</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>wal<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> T</span>reat<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">i</span>es</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span><span lang="EN-US">n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>ms<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>these<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>must pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>de the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
U</span>N <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">o</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ce
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">wi</span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>ra<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>el<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e
<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">(</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">1</span>2)<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>mo<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ths<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>n ad<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ce.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">T</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>ernme<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">da</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>er,<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>fa<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>ed to pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>de such a <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>tten<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">o</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ce.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">A</span>cc<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>rd<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>fo<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>e,
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>t <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">g</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span>e mariju<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>l <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">2019</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>he
e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>rd<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>mp<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> wi</span>th<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>tern<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">n</span>s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">M</span><span lang="EN-US">ark<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>G<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">A</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>sta<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">D</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span>uty<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">M</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ster<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>Int<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>rn<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> S</span>ec<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">u</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ty<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
Po<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>cal<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">A</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>rs<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>at
G<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">A</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>rs<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>st<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>mo<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>fore<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">h</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> C</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">m</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ttee<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>n
<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">M</span>arch,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>2<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">0</span>1<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">8</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>tated<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>l n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span>e
<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>ra<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng <span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">m</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">se<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>k<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">v</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ns
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>“a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> t</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>ty<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>acti<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ns </span><span lang="EN-US">r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>ard<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g
the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>three<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span>In<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sh<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>t,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">wi</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">l</span>l
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">M</span>r. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">G<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">’</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>cre<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e circu<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">m</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">’</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>mm<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">it</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>tre<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>– </span><span lang="EN-US">n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>, th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a
<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l
rema<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">comp<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ce <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>“<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">ov</span>erarch<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>l</span><span lang="EN-US">s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">”<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on</span><span lang="EN-US">s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>se </span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">i</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>rp<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">o</span>rte<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>pr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>tects<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>e hea<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>th and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>fety<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">’</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">s</span></span><span lang="EN-US">,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">o</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>curat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span><span lang="EN-US">he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>N <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">N</span>arc<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>cs<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>ol<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> B</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>rd<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>sed <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>2<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">0</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">1</span>7 ann<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>rt<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">w</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ch it<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">s</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">tated<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">’</span>s </span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span><span lang="EN-US">l <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">C</span>-45
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nc<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>mp<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> wi</span>th <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ns<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>ass<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">u</span>med by<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a und<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>e
Dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>trol <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>rd<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ess <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">’</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ass<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>rar<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">y</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">F<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>rth<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>r,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">l</span>th and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>ty<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>prote<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>ted
by<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span>ation <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>mar<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na
by<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">l</span>l
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">C</span>-<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">45</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>hy<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>n
h<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">H</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>th C<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>da<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> li</span>sted <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>te<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the
e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">x</span>te<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e ha<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>aris<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">e</span>s
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">wi</span>th <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>use <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u style="text-underline: black thick;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>rug<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">u</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">y</span>’ s <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">E</span><span lang="EN-US">x<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span>erie<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ce<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">it</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the
L<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>l<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>za<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>ion<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>M<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US">In 201<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">3</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>ay<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>as <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>ry<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ate<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>mariju<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>a
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>the n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>.
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>na <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>ev<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>r,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>rs<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">fi</span>ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ch<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>d
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">i</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">n C<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">’</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>C</span><span lang="EN-US">-4<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">5</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span><span lang="EN-US">n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>su<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span>er,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> li</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>on <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;">h</span>at<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>so<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>d a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>ay<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>so<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>d.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">N</span>o co<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">m</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n or<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>mar<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>tte<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">d</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>Oth<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>r res<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ct<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">U</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>y r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ns<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>nc<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">de</span>:<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>mariju<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>na
b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">h</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ted
<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>e
dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>v<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>no
co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>sum<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n enc<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>os<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>sp<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>ce<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>no<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">g</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">z</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d perma<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>res<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>nts
may<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>rt<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>te<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> m</span>ariju<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">m</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>ey<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>must
r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>st<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">T<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">h</span>e <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">I</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>tu<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">R</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n
and C<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>rol<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span lang="EN-US">n <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>rd<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>o
p<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>rch<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>se<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>mar<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.0pt;"> </span>In<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">d</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>are res<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>cted<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>4<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">8</span>0<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>grams<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>(10<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>gra<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">m</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>k)<span style="letter-spacing: .25pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ch can<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>be<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span>ta<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>ed
o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>n l<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ce<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>sed p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">h</span>ar<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">m</span>ac<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In co<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>tra<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l
C-45 <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">ov</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>de
d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>str<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
a<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ili</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">t</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ri</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>on the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ns
d<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>te<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>d by<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nc<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">t</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">r</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>ho
h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he res<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ili</span>ty<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>n <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">r</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span>ect<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>o <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>str<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">u</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sa<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e
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</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span>Ob<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>as a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>res<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">lt</span>,
the method<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>sa<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nt<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>sa<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">r</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ct<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l diff<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>ma<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>sd<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ct<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>acr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>ss<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>. F<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>rth<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>r,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">m</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">b</span>e pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>uc<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>n
C<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>da
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</span>a c<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">m</span>merci<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>l<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>fo<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">r</span>-pr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>su<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span>sta<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">e</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>tu<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">U</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u style="text-underline: black thick;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>x<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">c</span>ted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>q<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">c</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: 3.0pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>rug<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">u</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">y</span>’
s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>R<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">u</span>la<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>ion<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: 3.0pt;"> </span>Ma<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">r</span>i<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span></span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">A</span><span lang="EN-US">n </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">x</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>cted co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">q</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ce <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">’</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u</span><span lang="EN-US">a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a l<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>w<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">U</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">S</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>g<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>ernme<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">k</span>ed
the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">P</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ot<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> A</span>ct </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span lang="EN-US">h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ch pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">h</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">S</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span>ng
<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">d</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>tors<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>ru<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">a</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>of
the p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">h</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>rmac<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: 3.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">I</span>ntern<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">–<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>h <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>se<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>h U.S. h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">q</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>rt<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>rs<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>ch
as<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> Citi</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">b</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>k<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">E</span>urope<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>such<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>as Sa<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>ta<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>sed
th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>r
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">U</span>ru<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>an
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">b</span>ra<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ch<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>are
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">h</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ted<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>fr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ces
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>str<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">u</span>tors<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f mariju<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">A</span><span lang="EN-US">s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>res<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>t,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">h</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>mac<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> t</span>as<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">k</span>ed<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sa<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e
and<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>str<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>mar<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>na<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e been<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>cut<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>ff fr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the e<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>nc<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>ser<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">vi</span>ces <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">m</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>ket<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>se<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n Ur<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ced
th<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">
</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>ery b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>ss<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>ass<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ated<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>a
i<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>stry<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>ed
b<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n
of<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">S</span>. dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">w</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>d l<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>se
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>acc<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>ss<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">S</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">k</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d do<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ll</span>ar<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">a</span>ns<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span><span lang="EN-US">h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">u</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>ss<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>so<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n
in<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">l</span>l<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span>te<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>so occur<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l
pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>o be a <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">v</span>ery<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>cu<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">l</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>ch<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ll</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">C</span>-45 <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>ed
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nto<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
l</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u style="text-underline: black thick;"><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">T</span><span lang="EN-US">he Importa<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>ce<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>te<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">r</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>tio<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>l<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">T</span>reat<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">i</span>es</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">B</span><span lang="EN-US">y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ntent<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>fa<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>l
to<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>omp<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> wi</span>th
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ntern<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">b</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">li</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a a<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">q</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>red
<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>n
it<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>rat<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ed<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>dr<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>trol<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>tre<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">wil</span>l be<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>set<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>g<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>er<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>us prec<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>f<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>r co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>nt<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">r</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>arly<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ola<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>e
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">U</span>N<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>tre<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>rdy<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">no</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>- pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">li</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>rati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>tre<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ti</span>es,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nst<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>ar<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>cr<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">s</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>se<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>en <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>uman<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> t</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es. <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>cre<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>tes<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">j</span>or
prob<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">l</span>ems<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>orld<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>order<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">i</span>ntern<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>ernanc<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">e</span>.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span>In
sh<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nce <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a
<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">
</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>os<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ch <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">t</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ll</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">w</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l
h<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>set<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>ro<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>rec<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>t
for<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>res<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>t <span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">an</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">u</span>p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">h</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>nt<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>rn<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">l</span>aw<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> an</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">l</span>l
res<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>me<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f other<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>to se<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>ely<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>mp<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ement<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>rn<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>l co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ti</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ed.<span style="letter-spacing: 2.95pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">o</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">tr</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>mat<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">r</span>.
<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: -.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">C</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">’</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">o</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">l</span></span><span lang="EN-US">ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>the
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">d</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">u</span>g
tre<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ti</span>es
and<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>so<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">D</span>ec<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ar<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ti</span>on
on the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> Ri</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>ts<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f
the <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">il</span>l h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e l<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ng<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">g</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>m<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>cati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ns
n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">
</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">u</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>b<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">u</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">l</span>so<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>orld
at <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>ar<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">g</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span><span lang="EN-US">h<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>s,<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>reje<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>by<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">C</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>a<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">n</span>tern<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">t</span>re<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ed<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">i</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">p</span>pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>at<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">e</span>, a<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>d
is <span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">v</span>ery<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">m</span>fu<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">l</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span><span lang="EN-US">he<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> U</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ted
<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">N</span>ati<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>ns<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> C</span>o<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on on the<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>L<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>w<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">T</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">r</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es,<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>h<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ch came<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
i</span>nto<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span>e<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">c</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>Ja<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>u<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">y</span>,<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>1<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">9</span>80 sp<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">i</span><span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;">f</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>ca<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">ll</span>y<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>pro<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">v</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>d<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">e</span>s<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n
<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">S</span>ecti<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">o</span>n
3<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">A</span>rt<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>c<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>e
54<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">h</span>e <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>rm<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>n<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>tre<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">a</span>ty<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>the <span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">d</span>ra<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span>al<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">a</span>rty<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span><u style="text-underline: black;">may<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span><span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;">k</span>e p<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">l</span>ace<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">w</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>th <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>se<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;">n</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">o</span>f<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>l<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>the
<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">p</span>ar<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span><span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>es <span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>ft<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>r<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;"> </span>co<span style="letter-spacing: -.05pt;">n</span>su<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">l</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">a</span>t<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">i</span>on<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> wi</span>th <span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;">t</span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>oth<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">e</span>r</u>
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<i><span style="color: red;">The following is their document spelling out what they consider the best formula for sensible and workable drug policy.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: red;">We have highlighted steps 5 & 7 because so many jurisdictions have abandoned hope and replaced it with "opioid replacement therapy," an oxymoron if there ever was one.</span></i></div>
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The 2016 UNGASS Outcome Document provides a comprehensive menu for a broad, balanced and effective drug policy, based on public health, human rights and the three international drug conventions.</div>
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Member states and civil society organizations from all over the world should use the years leading up to the next milestone in 2019 for one thing: <b>action and implementation at the national and local level. </b>We don’t need more words, documents, or commissions. We need action.</div>
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The Drug Policy Futures network appeals to all Member States to prioritize the following ten areas when addressing the Outcome Document, consistent with the social and political context of their respective nations. These steps, if well-implemented, will greatly improve national drug policies and yield to a substantial reduction in drug-related harms.</div>
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<strong>1) Reduce drug use prevalence</strong><br />The overarching goal of every Member State’s drug policy should be reducing the prevalence of drug use. This will lead to lower numbers of problematic drug users, as well as a reduction in numbers of adolescents who are exposed to drug use in their peer group. Member States should monitor drug use prevalence regularly and adjust policies based on results to make prevention programmes more efficient.</div>
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<strong>2) Mobilize a million communities</strong>Effective prevention efforts are even more effective when they are synergistic and implemented by local communities. Local initiatives should involve local authorities and public services, schools, police, parent groups, community-based organisations, sports clubs, religious groups etc. The UNODC International Standards on Drug Use Prevention list a broad selection of recommended interventions that can be used in community programmes.</div>
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<strong>3) Programmes for better parenting</strong><br />Parents can make a big difference as agents for prevention. They have a great influence on the behaviour of and the future of their own children, as well as other children in their community. All countries should therefore develop and implement culturally sensitive support programmes for better parenting. Such programmes can serve to build self-confidence for parents, build networks, and disseminate knowledge about the impact of drugs on young people’s development and their peer group.</div>
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<strong>4)Prioritize early intervention and assistance to vulnerable groups</strong>Schools and local communities should set up systems to assist vulnerable groups, particularly children. Identifying and helping youth who struggle with childhood trauma, family problems, abuse, school attendance, and other problems is important. At such an early stage, even simple interventions by teachers, health or social workers, and family and neighbours can make a great difference.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>5)Offer treatment, rehabilitation, and harm-reduction alternatives</strong>Based on the principle of non-discrimination, all people with drug use disorders must have access to a wide range of services. Treatment, harm reduction, and rehabilitation should be integrated. Such services must also aim at maximizing the affected individuals’ possibility for recovery, and include family and friends. Empowering those struggling with drug abuse through connecting the individuals’ own resources with health care providers is essential to limiting mortality and morbidity while preserving dignity and self-respect.</span></div>
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<strong>6)Organize local support systems after specialized treatment</strong>Failing to reintegrate those who have completed specialized treatment back into their communities wastes resources and causes human suffering. Treatment programmes must plan for reintegration with society afterwards; a place to live, meaningful work, a social network, and meaningful leisure activities. Treatment centres and local municipalities must coordinate reintegration from the very start of the treatment programme.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong>7)Support self-help groups for drug users and those in recovery</strong>Across the globe, self-help groups for drug users (current users as well as those in recovery), have proven successful as a tool for escaping from drug abuse and reintegration into society after treatment. Such groups are therefore a very useful complement to more formal treatment services, and should be integrated into the totality of treatment and recovery services in all countries</span>.</div>
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<strong>8)Support alternative development</strong>A development approach aimed at improving people’s quality of life is needed to mobilize local communities where illicit drugs are produced. Governments in these countries should fund alternative development programmes in drug-producing areas. The most conflict-ridden countries in Latin America and Asia need support from the international community. Good governance is also a critical part of alternative development; if corruption is not controlled, drug-related crime cannot be controlled.</div>
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<strong></strong> <strong>9)Develop and implement alternatives to incarceration</strong>Several countries have already implemented an array of diversion programs to replace incarceration or fines as reaction to minor drug offences, including dissuasion commissions, youth contracts, drug courts, and rehabilitation programs for drug users. More countries should follow suit and experiences should be shared internationally, organized through UNODC.</div>
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<strong>10)Implement the principle of proportionality in sanctions</strong>Sanctions for drug-related offences must be proportional to the crime committed. The international drug conventions do not demand incarceration for drug users. Rather, they encourage prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation as alternatives. These approaches focus on treating the substance abuse disorder underlying criminal activity. Additionally, militarization of law enforcement, capital punishment and other inhumane and disproportionate methods should be abolished as they are not in accordance with the spirit of UN conventions.</div>
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<b>This ten point statement is supported by an alliance of networks that include more than 300 NGOs from all over the world.</b></div>
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<em>Drug Policy Futures is a global platform for a new drug policy debate based on health. We reject the simple dichotomy between ”a war on drugs” on the one hand and ”legalization” on the other.<br /></em></div>
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As you know, the impending approval of marijuana for non-medical use is
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the legalization of marijuana. The vast majority of the electorate continue to
not use marijuana and do not support more marijuana use in their society. The
reasons for this wide disapproval are as follows:</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Marijuana is a serious threat to the physical and
mental health of Canadians and its use is a major threat to public safety. 1 Marijuana
use is strongly associated with the onset of psychiatric disorders. 2 Mental
illness causes crime, homelessness, enormous societal costs and suffering. Marijuana use has also been linked to mental
health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts. 3 Marijuana
use is associated with an increased risk of prescription opioid misuse and use
disorders. 4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In 2017, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
concluded after a review of over 10,000 peer-reviewed academic articles, that
marijuana use is connected to many problems including: respiratory problems;
mental health issues (like psychosis, social anxiety, and thoughts of suicide);
increased risk of car accidents; progression to and dependence on other drugs;
learning, memory, and attention loss (possibly permanent in some cases); and low
birth weight. 5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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substantiates the risk that marijuana products pose to reproductive health and
state these products should not be used if a woman is pregnant, is planning to
get pregnant, or is breast-feeding, and should not be used by a man who wishes
to start a family, are under the age of 25. 6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It is requested of the federal government that a Child
Rights Impact Assessment be undertaken to determine conformity of Bill C45 with
the UN- Rights of the Child Treaty. A key aspect of this analysis should be
widespread consultation with children and youth, pursuant to Article 12 of the
UNCRC. If such an assessment determines the proposed legalization framework
violates the terms of this important human rights treaty, under which both the
federal and provincial governments are legally bound, all elected members of
Parliament must be guided to defeat Bill C-45 on the grounds and basis of human
rights violations. 7<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Canada cannot function if a large percentage of its
population is addicted or mentally ill or mentally impaired due to marijuana
use. A Canadian’s right to security under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
must not be ignored and this extends to every Canadians right to protection
from drugged drivers as well as protection from second-hand marijuana smoke..
Therefore, all elected officials with a sworn duty to protect the interests of
all Canadians must in the strongest possible terms accept their duty of care in
regards determining the viability and legality of the proposed legislation of
Bill-C-45. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs,
and Health, November, 2016, Chapters One and two and Appendix D pp.65-66 at:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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American Psychiatric Association, Position Statement on Marijuana as Medicine,
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Marijuana Addictive?” DrugFacts: Marijuana, (June 2015), at: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
- citing: Hasin DS, Saha TD, Kerridge BT, et al. Prevalence of Marijuana Use
Disorders in the United States Between 2001-2002 and 2012-2013. JAMA
Psychiatry. 2015;72(12):1235-1242.
doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.1858.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Current State of Evidence and
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David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-84302089512631581202017-11-03T09:56:00.002-07:002017-11-03T09:56:55.376-07:00A REASONABLE QUESTION<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-16857587368810275062017-10-31T10:01:00.001-07:002017-10-31T10:03:37.808-07:00POT DRINKS AT A SHOP NEAR YOU SOON<span style="font-size: large;">The only way to truly follow the trajectory of drug marketing is to read the financial news. The old adage of "Follow the money" is as reliable as it has always been.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reprinted in this morning's Vancouver Sun, the Financial Post shrieks with <a href="http://business.financialpost.com/investing/a-bold-move-canadian-cannabis-giant-canopy-growth-sells-stake-to-american-brewer">glee</a> that a major American beer and wine company has just paid a small fortune for a significant share of a Canadian marijuana firm. The writers call this 'a bold move.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next investors in our burgeoning marijuana industry are Big Tobacco and Big Pharma. It only makes sense, doesn't it? Aren't we just kicking ourselves for not getting on the hay ride earlier, you know, like so many of our former politicians did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh well, for those of us in the recovery business, I guess we'll have our hands full and we'll be busy and making scads of money too. Ain't life grand? And it's going to be so much fun working with addicted eight year old children. I guess recess will be mandated for all residential programs. And maybe reading and writing and arithmetic. I can see it now. Provincial governments will all have a new department called Mental Health, Addictions and Education. Tidy.</span></div>
David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-1645489927036748662017-10-21T10:25:00.001-07:002017-10-21T10:25:39.953-07:00TELL IT TO SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T CARE<span style="font-size: large;">An <a href="http://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-legalization-of-pot-is-upon-us-and-we-havent-prepared-our-kids-to-deal-with-it">excellent op-ed piece</a> is headlining in the Vancouver Sun today. It is written by Dr. Jessica Ross and it appeared originally in the National Post under a different title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This morning, in the Sun, the item is called "Kids must be told the full story on pot's health risks."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a great read full of both professional and home truths. And the basic advice in the title is appropriate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But here's another another suggestion about to whom we might tell the full pot story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>We could tell a former Premier, Attorney General and Health Minister of the Province of British Columbia all of whom have major interests in private "medical" marijuana companies.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We can all hardly wait until we are elected to public office so we can retire as soon as possible and become dope dealers to children of 8 and 9.</span>David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-10514243430187857202017-10-20T09:02:00.001-07:002017-10-20T09:02:42.803-07:00ODD SQUAD GALA & CONFERENCE<span style="font-size: large;">THE ODD SQUAD has been in business for 20 years now re-directing kids at risk into productive, creative and clean and sober lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Society's 20th Anniversary Gala includes a huge conference with a galaxy of powerful and informed speakers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The BIG EVENT is Friday, December 1st. Be there or be square.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please go to their <a href="http://www.oddsquad.com/">website</a> and click on the EVENTS tab to get the full story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More importantly, get some tickets and help support a great local group of dedicated police officers, both active and retired, who have been nationally recognized for extraordinary commitment to their community.</span><br />
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David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-495048758235922812017-10-19T10:08:00.000-07:002017-10-19T10:08:13.865-07:00BIG PHARMA - BIGGEST DOPE DEALERS OF ALL TIME<span style="font-size: large;">Nicholas Kristof authors a blistering op-ed in The New York Times today. The <a href="http://nyti.ms/2hPmx1i">piece</a> is titled, "Drug Dealers in Lab Coats."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sheer numbers (profits, bribes, deaths) are staggering and the malfeasance and lack of public or political corrective action is sickening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The article is an excellent follow-up to the work of the Washington Post and "60 Minutes."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Canada is no different.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We scurry to revive overdose victims on the street. That's a good thing. But we offer them no hope for treatment, recovery and a sober life and we would never dare to sue pharmaceutical corporations, or pharmacists or doctors. My goodness no. But that is exactly what some folks are now doing south of the border.</span><br />
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David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-12274380516016060412017-09-27T11:07:00.000-07:002017-09-27T11:07:11.383-07:00POT TO OPIOIDS CHARTED<div style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
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David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-91143441336345429412017-09-25T10:26:00.002-07:002017-09-25T10:26:46.103-07:00THE REAL COST OF OPIODSWe are not alone in our inadequate and uninformed response to the opioid crisis.<br />
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The numbers in <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-cost-of-the-opioid-crisis">America</a> are staggering and, by population, even worse than ours.<br />
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The New Yorker article highlighted above is worth reading.<br />
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Then we must all ask what to do next?<br />
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And if we actually<br />
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know the answer, who will listen?David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-44477404846885080502017-09-20T20:53:00.002-07:002017-09-20T20:53:39.064-07:00ONLY IN CANADA, YOU SAY? WASN'T THAT A TEA COMMERCIAL?<span style="font-size: large;">If I told you that New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady has left the team and football to star in a Broadway musical about a famous NFL QB who finds happiness hiding in an Al Qaeda cell in the suburbs of Beirut...would you say that this is just too much stretching of credulity?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">O.K.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, how about this?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still not a believer?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's alright. I'm a Jew and I'm struggling with this one myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, <a href="http://bit.ly/2w81e11">here</a> is the actual true story coming from the magical make-believe land of Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Good old Rabbi Teitlebaum to the rescue.</span></div>
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David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-30400424408216566252017-08-31T08:42:00.000-07:002017-08-31T08:42:58.607-07:00FROM HEALTH MINISTER TO DRUG DEALER<span style="font-size: large;">The Vancouver Sun has been making a habit recently of telling us things that most of us have known for ages. This morning was a prime example.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">FORMER BC HEALTH MINISTER TO JOIN GROWING MARIJUANA COMPANY</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, you must read the whole gruesome <a href="http://vancouversun.com/news/national/former-b-c-health-minister-terry-lake-to-join-growing-marijuana-company">story</a> for all the rich details.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like this great quote.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"We have to be concerned with protecting the health of young Canadians."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is from the fellow who used to be responsible for how we spent our tax dollars on health issues and who now is moving to another province so that he can produce and sell marijuana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Somehow, good old boy Terry seems to have missed the point that kids are now turning to marijuana in huge numbers by the age of eight and by their teens they are full blown addicts to crack, coke, heroin and all those new nasty opioids that are killing our citizens in large numbers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How do we know this? Because folks like me work in recovery and treatment and we receive these human train wrecks by the car load.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But, hey. Follow the money. Because that is all this tale is about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The article also mentions his daughter presenting some scientific information at a New York conference. What is not mentioned is that Lake's daughter worked for the number one Harm Reductionist in Canada. Oddly, that doctor regularly received millions of dollars from government offices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Curiouser and curiouser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Terry Lake is now channeling Donald Trump. Lying through his teeth and actually believing his own press releases.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But money can do that to you.</span><br />
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</section>David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-43228601688092142022017-07-12T19:10:00.003-07:002017-07-12T19:11:26.789-07:00AT THE PRECIPICE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In physics and finance and a few other human concerns,
there is a moment called the tipping point. It is that Nano-second just before
the break boundary when something becomes entirely something else. Kitty Hawk
is suddenly the Apollo Mission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In this country, we have reached that tipping point
when it comes to addictions and recovery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was only a scant 20 years ago, that Vancouver Mayor
Philip Owen began talking about something called Harm Reduction, the notion
that the very least we could do for these poor bedraggled, mystifying
infuriating crazy drug addicts was ‘make them comfortable.’ Give them something
and some place that would not cure them, but at a minimum keep them from
getting diseases from using shared needles and other unsavory practices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We had already been giving some addicts a substitute
lab-made narcotic called methadone for many years. Soon we were giving many,
many more people methadone and free heroin and free crack pipe kits and free
alcohol and nice tidy, nurse-run places to shoot up. Insite in Vancouver’s
Downtown East Side is world famous and considered a great role model for civic
minded people all over the world who clamor to open as many similar locations
as Cineplexes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We don’t have mobile cancer clinics or osteoporosis wagons –
even though we have hugely skewed aging populations in this country – but many
mayors are shopping for mobile ‘safe injection’ units to patrol the leafier
neighbourhoods of towns hither and yon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Today, the ideology of Harm Reduction holds sway in
every corner of the community – health authorities, legislatures, parliament,
doctors, psychiatrists, universities and colleges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sitting on my desk today is a 77 page document
entitled “A Guideline for the Clinical Management of Opioid Use Disorder.” It
is published and distributed by the British Columbia Ministry of Health (The
retiring Minister will be heading up a medical marijuana enterprise when he
returns to civilian life.) and something called the British Columbia Centre on
Substance Use. The list of well-initialed academics who are contributors or
reviewers to this new bible runs a full three pages. Topping the many
individuals, groups, associations and governments to whom grateful
acknowledgements are offered is the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Residential treatment can be found on page 21. It is
largely dismissed due to lack of ‘evidence.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Everything else in this hefty tome claims to be based
on ‘science.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What is everything else?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pharmaceuticals, of course.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At this point, let’s remind the reader of the first
principle of journalism. Follow the Money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Keep that uppermost as you read on. Here are some
numbers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Last year and the year before, the Province of British
Columbia spent $365 Million on a four square block of land in Vancouver called
the Downtown East Side. There are over 100 social service agencies plying their
trade in that neighbourhood. Many of these non-profits have Executive Directors
being paid in six figures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The same government spent about $100 Million on methadone,
but those monies are shifted across the table to another expenditure column so
they don’t really show up under the budget of Mental Health & Addictions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We are currently supporting over 20,000 human beings
on long term methadone maintenance with no known or projected date to taper off
and quit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Everyone is aware of the worldwide nightmare and
tragedy called Fentanyl.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But not enough people know these two dreadful facts:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">One. Of the people who die of a Fentanyl overdose, 20%
of them are methadone users. Whoops! How well is that idea working?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Two. Emergency Response Team members, most of whom are
suffering massively from PTSD having to attend to addicts in overdose too
often, will tell you that they are mightily tired of reviving a guy named Eddie
5 times a day. The problem with the mythical Eddie is that no one is allowed to
revive him and then <i>take him to a
recovery centre so that he could start the hard and honorable work of getting
away from his addictions</i>. And the reason that EMT folks cannot take that
extra step is because we, as a society believe that it is Eddie’s Charter given
right to keep being a fool, hang the cost to the public purse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now, I have worked successfully with addicts for many
years now and I can’t imagine bringing Eddie back to life and NOT taking that
extra step.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is important at this juncture to recognize that
addictions are not only a problem and a scourge and a tragedy and a stain on
our lives, but they are also very Big Business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Harm Reductionists, who at the moment are in the
driver’s seat, are exactly like the addicts they fail to help. The addict wants
to simplify the challenges and exigencies of daily life. Instead of dealing
with the mortgage, the spouse, the business partner, the kids, the neighbour or
the guy whizzing by at dangerous speeds, the addict has a drink or a line of
coke or a needle or a pipe. He or she bottles and encapsulates all of life’s
problems. Simple. The Harm Seduction people also want a simple answer to a
complex problem. We’ll give them a substitute drug and a place to use and call
it a day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This might work if the substance was the issue. It is
not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The substance is the symptom of a much larger and
puzzling malaise. Work and time are the solutions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The people who are running the great official
addictions enterprise now actively and openly denigrate 12-step programs and
residential treatment. They claim, in what is a classic example of
psychological projection, that folks like me and my colleagues are ideologues
and that they in their wisdom are great evidence based scientists. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They are
hauling in and spending many billions of tax dollars with little or no
demonstration of any clean or sober citizen clients. They are building corrals
of drugged up, stunned human beings forever dependent on the largess of these
clever men and women. A dystopian and ugly scenario.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Note how much of their ‘research’ and funding comes
from Big Pharma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Harm Reduction has the microphone for the moment. May
the return of what one great Canadian called ‘sweet reasonableness’ be upon us
sooner than later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They both spring from a deeply cynical and arrogant
world view – You are an addict and you are hopeless. We will keep you
“comfortable” while you continue to die.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is a curious position considering the millions of
men and women who admit that they are addicts and choose every day not to pick
up their poison. We know thousands of such clean and sober citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We as a body politic owe one another a chance at
dignity. To offer less is not only costly, it is monstrous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Stop worrying about foreign investors buying up all the property in your neighbourhood. The new owner is moving in.<br />
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Read today's New York Times article called <a href="http://nyti.ms/2omuHE0">A REAL ESTATE BOOM POWERED BY POT</a>.<br />
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The numbers are mind-boggling...that is, for anyone who still has a functioning mind.<br />
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It is easy to understand why former mayors, premiers, ministers of health and police chiefs are all heading boards of "medical" marijuana companies.<br />
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Just as easy to see why some of you may feel like you're watching a new live-action version of "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers."<br />
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<br />David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-2290530455210775042017-03-12T13:25:00.001-07:002017-03-12T13:25:40.421-07:00LIVELY AND INFORMED DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SUBTLETIES IN THE DISCUSSION ON YESTERDAY'S POST ABOUT RIGHTS VS. RIGHTS<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr. Ray Baker and I got into a bit of a debate over the last post here about Human Rights vs. Public Safety. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Because he was part of the team who developed the new <a href="http://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/eng/content/impaired-work-guide-accommodating-substance-dependence">IMPAIRED AT WORK</a> protocol for the Canadian Human Rights Commission, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I asked him the following</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Can an employee who appears to be impaired during his/her duties be removed for the next 24 hours?</span><br />
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I think this is the case in the airlines and I think the Americans are tougher than we are, yes?</div>
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His answer:</div>
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It comes down to a case of human rights vs. safety. If safety is a factor than it always trumps the individualy worker’s rights.</div>
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So, yup, safety sensitive workers ( vehicle operators, equipment operators, people who perform functions who when they mess up might hurt somebody else) or highly responsible (teachers, doctors) personnel MUST be immediately removed from the safety sensitive task if impairment is suspected. To not do so is both a criminal and WCB offence.</div>
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Usually when they are removed, they may be sent for some sort of brief evaluation to determine the cause of impairment. Sometimes it’s drug testing, but sometimes its a more thorough occupational medical evaluation. Then they can’t go back to work until/unless found medically fit. Sometimes that means a treatment program followed by a period of monitoring.</div>
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If a lousy employee with bad attitude is impaired at work or if he/she demonstrates unacceptable attendance, performance or behaviour, then the employer may discipline them up to firing them (just cause)</div>
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But if the employee can demonstrate a disability or disorder that could account for the impairment/attendance/<wbr></wbr>performance/behaviour, then the employer is forced to “accommodate them”</div>
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But built into this is the obligation for the bad employee to:</div>
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1. undergo diagnostic evaluation and treatment planning</div>
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2. demonstrate compliance with the treatment plan</div>
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3. continue to demonstrate ongoing compliance with a continuing care plan in the case of a chronic condition with relapse potential</div>
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so either way you got them: either the employer gets back an improved worker</div>
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or the worker continues on their path and the employer will be allowed to get rid of them</div>
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Get well or get gone.</div>
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Works like a hot damn.</div>
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And I know more than a few people who are now in good recovery because their employer finally grew a spine and fired them. That was enough of a ‘bottom’ for them to do what only they can do and seek help</div>
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HUMAN RIGHTS CAN OUTWEIGH PUBLIC SAFETY</h1>
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Toronto transit staff won’t likely be subject to drug tests. Howard Levitt explains why.</h2>
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New York, London and Sydney all have random testing for their transit workers. Although Toronto Transit Commission workers also deal with public safety every day, they probably won’t end up having to comply with random drug and alcohol tests. Why not?</div>
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The answer is that the Ontario Human Rights Code considers drug and alcohol addiction a disability and protects employees from being discriminated against by being tested. In other words, you can’t single them out, you can’t fire them and you can’t administer random drug and alcohol tests. But that doesn’t mean the TTC shouldn’t try.</div>
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When the TTC gave notice to its union that it intended to implement random drug testing of all employees in “safety-sensitive positions,” including bus, streetcar and subway operators, starting March 1, the union’s response was swift and predictable.</div>
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It argued that accusations of systemic drug and alcohol use were unfounded and that oral swabbing for illicit drugs and alcohol breathalyzer tests<b> violated employees’ charter rights.</b> The union filed an injunction blocking the implementation of the program, now delayed until April 1, pending a court decision.</div>
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The employer claims that drug and alcohol abuse among its workers is a big problem, and it has done its homework. Court documents cite over 100 positive employee drug and alcohol tests between 2012 and 2016. Other incidents include criminal law issues, such as employees purchasing crystal meth during breaks, consuming cocaine in the bathroom and even a TTC crane operator trafficking OxyContin and methadone. In the eyes of one TTC investigator, these are not isolated incidents, but indicative of a “culture of drug and alcohol abuse at the TTC.”</div>
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You would think that, given this evidence, random drug testing should be the next logical step. While it is, and the TTC believes it is, courts and arbitrators will almost assuredly determine otherwise.</div>
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The law says random drug testing cannot be imposed unless there is a demonstrated history of problems in the workplace related to drug or alcohol abuse, the positions are “safety sensitive,” and there is a real, demonstrable risk of injury.</div>
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Whether the TTC can meet this threshold will come down to management’s ability to establish that a few hundred positive tests over several years constitutes a systemic drug and alcohol problem in a public transit company that employs over 10,000 workers in so-called “safety sensitive” positions. My view is that it won’t.</div>
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That’s because the real issue standing in the TTC’s way has very little to do with the union and statute law. Their real fight is a series of decisions written predominantly by Human Rights Tribunal members and arbitrators in human rights cases. Until Parliament and the legislature intervene and rewrite the law to protect the public, the union will likely prevail.</div>
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Even if the TTC is ultimately granted permission to administer random drug tests, a positive test result will not result in the ability to terminate employees for cause. The employer must demonstrate that the behaviour prevents the employee from effectively and efficiently carrying out his or her duties. It must also provide employees with warnings and an opportunity to seek treatment. Only if an employer provides a reasonable treatment opportunity and the employee fails to comply and improve performance, will the employer generally have just cause for dismissal.</div>
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The TTC is acting responsibly by prioritizing public safety. Passengers should be able to rely on public transit without worrying about the sobriety of their driver. Let’s hope the court will see the issue through that prism. If not, there may be one fortunate concomitant, a public reaction against human rights tribunals placing political correctness over public safety.</div>
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David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-73148802914063833882017-01-26T09:51:00.001-08:002017-01-26T09:55:18.485-08:00THE WHOLE PROBLEM IN A NUTSHELLSo many ordinary sensible citizens keep wondering and asking why there are so few treatment beds for addicts and in particular for young addicts.<br />
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The entire explanation was revealed yesterday.<br />
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A senior bureaucrat at Vancouver Coastal Health said it and it was reported in Metro Newspaper.<br />
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Here it is.<br />
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Wait for it, cause it's a doozy.<br />
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Now:<br />
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"ADDICTION IS NOT A CHOICE."<br />
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Uh-huh.<br />
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Addiction is not a choice.<br />
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Yes, when you pick up your glass of gin or wine at 8:05 a.m., there is actually a secret mysterious devil creature forcing your elbow to bend.<br />
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When you turn into the liquor store parking lot instead of picking up the girls after school, it's the fault of those new Nissan SUV's that are pre-programmed to always go to the booze outlet.<br />
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Right.<br />
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You see, it's beyond your control and therefore, because you cannot help yourself, self-help, like A.A. and N.A. and C.A, are all out of the question. They don't work. Fuggetit!<br />
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What you really need, you poor out of control slob, is a doctor and a pharmacist to keep you in clover.<br />
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In other words, you need the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority to manage your unmanageable life. And we will do that by legalizing all substances and giving you free doses as you like to keep you quiet.<br />
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Nice philosophy. And helpful.<br />
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Well, pardon us if some of us still cling to the peculair belief that human values, thinking and actions are choices.<br />
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We recognize full well that there are powerful psychological and emotional mechanisms driving us towwards certain choices.<br />
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But as we have now witnessed many thousands (and heard of many millions) of people who learned about themselves and then MADE THE CHOICE to not pick up their poison ever again, often in spite of bad history, well we have come to believe that<br />
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RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE, and<br />
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CHOICE IS THE KEY.<br />
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The Health Authorities are starting from the entirely wrong place.<br />
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David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-3583173045231824902017-01-04T10:57:00.002-08:002017-01-04T10:57:15.304-08:00LEGALIZING WITHOUT THOUGHT<a href="http://theprovince.com/opinion/little-research-on-marijuanas-dangers">Here</a> is an excellent piece from Lawrie Mcfarlane of The Province newspaper published the other day and sent to us by our good friends Mark Steinkampf and Al Arsenault of the Odd Squad.<br />
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David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-65657982020696910172016-12-20T13:14:00.003-08:002016-12-20T13:18:16.379-08:00A GREAT, CLEAR AND TRUTHFUL EXPLANATION OF ADDICTIONS IN A FEW MINUTES
Watch <a href="http://bit.ly/1Qh0m2a">here.</a>David Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-32901491380540840762016-06-15T13:14:00.003-07:002016-06-15T13:16:46.868-07:00REHAB FACILITIES NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER By: Chuck Doucette and David Berner Opinion in the Winnipeg Free Press June 15, 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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RCMP at the Behavioral Health Foundation in late May.<br />
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Thanks to Jessica Hadley, President of the Child & Youth Care
Workers’ Association of Manitoba for her excellent, timely and
well-balanced commentary <a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/analysis/fear-frustration-the-norm-for-youth-care-workers-381991251.html">(Fear, frustration the norm for youth-care workers, June 7).</a><br />
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Ms.
Hadley was writing about the May 29 attack on two workers — including a
Red River College student finishing her practicum — committed by
two teenage residents at the Behavioural Health Foundation’s facility in
Selkirk.<br />
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The workers were viciously assaulted with a baseball bat and billiard
balls and suffered serious injuries — the student is now blind in one
eye — and trauma. The purpose of this obscenity, it’s believed, was to
steal a truck and go party.<br />
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Over the years, BHF staff have been threatened and assaulted and there have been attempts to burn down the facility.Residents assault
each other in every way imaginable and, in some cases, quite
unimaginable ways.<br />
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But this is the most extreme and dreadful incident in
BHF’s 45 years operating in Manitoba.<br />
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The male youth facility —
which had been scheduled to close for good on June 25 — typically housed
between 10 and 14 high-risk youths. Staff were scheduled at a ratio of
one to four youths, except on overnight shifts, which met the licensing
and accreditation standards. Many group homes have staff with
considerably less.<br />
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The residents are volatile youths who come from
families torn apart by generations of violence, drug and alcohol abuse,
criminality and scant regard for what most people would consider basic
human values.<br />
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For reasons unclear to anyone at this point, there
has been a steadily increasing unwillingness to continue funding and
sending at-risk youths to this wonderful program. In 2014, the BHF in
Selkirk was told it was going to be shut down because of funding. In
fact, the only reason why the facility remained open was so that the Red
River College student could get the practicum hours needed in order to
obtain her diploma.<br />
<br />
To be clear, this kind of violent behaviour
is rarely seen in a large group setting, normally the situation at this
facility, where they would be surrounded by a peer group of 10 or12
others and a full complement of staff. Because of funding cuts, these
two very wound-up boys and their dark histories of violence, addictions
and social instabilities were only residents left.<br />
<br />
What was BHF
supposed to do, throw them out on the street? This is the work BHF has
done so well for so many years with singular dedication and knowledge.<br />
<br />
And
BHF is not alone. Courageous programs across the country dare to bring
youths such as this pair into their facilities and dare to embrace them
and lead them into a new way of looking at the world. Acceptance,
camaraderie and new concepts are thrown at these kids. "Do unto others"
or "R-E-S-P-E-C-T." or "Be the Best You!" Young people who have little
or no experience with being loved, or even vaguely liked, will present
walls and barricades. They are suspicious of good vibes or "square"
values. Their lives have been lived in chaos and it is chaos to which
they naturally drift. Now they’re being asked to live with peace,
reasonableness, kindness and caring for other people. Really?<br />
<br />
One of the oldest and best youth programs in the country introduced<b> </b>in a
rural setting in British Columbia a few years ago. Ribbons were cut,
photos were taken, the funding established and then the local health
authorities and the provincial government of the day did everything in
their power to stymie the work.<br />
<br />
Let’s say a 17-year-old girl says one morning, "Dad, I want to get clean." What’s the window of opportunity? About five seconds.<br />
<br />
Reason
says that father and daughter get in the car and head for the facility.
But health authorities decided that the person in crisis has to be
interviewed — several times — in Vancouver before she could even be
considered for admission to the rural program. As if these bureaucrats
have the faintest notion of how to work with kids in that situation.<br />
<br />
This
recent event at BHF is awful. But understand that those working on the
front lines with volatile people begin with a foundation of trust, love
and camaraderie tempered by some serious street smarts.<br />
Today,
Behavioural Health Foundation’s main facility in St. Norbert houses some
100 men, women and children, runs school programs, a daycare and
myriad other activities, including sophisticated and accredited therapy
and counseling.<br />
<br />
It has been doing this successfully for more than four decades.<br />
<br />
As conscious and conscientious citizens, we need not look far to realize we need BHF now more than ever.<br />
<br />
Let us recognize the tragedy for what it is and not make the mistake of throwing out the baby with the bath water.<br />
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<i>Chuck Doucette is the president and David Berner is the executive director of Drug Prevention Network Canada.</i></div>
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How could this medical and social disaster ever be allowed to
happen? If authorities had told me that Ontario, just one Canadian
province, was treating 400 addicts in methadone clinics, I’d believe
them. But, the actual number is 42,000. But how many of these addicts
need methadone? And what is the solution for this madness?<br />
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Dr. Theodore Dalrymple is not an arm-chair commentator on addiction.
Rather, he’s an internationally renowned expert, a British psychiatrist,
and prison doctor who has treated thousands of addicts over years.<br />
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In his book, Romancing Opiates, he writes that heroin is not as
highly addictive as claimed, and withdrawal not as difficult as treating
an alcoholic. He claims, “It’s a myth that treating the heroin
addiction 'cold turkey' causes withdrawal symptoms that are virtually
unbearable.”<br />
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He adds that, after witnessing withdrawal symptoms in thousands of
patients, “they are hardly worse than the flu. Moreover, the sudden
withdrawal of heroin is not dangerous.”<br />
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To prove his point Dalrymple reports that researchers examined the
records of thousands of addicts between 1875 and 1968 who had been taken
off heroin. They did not find a single death from withdrawal symptoms.<br />
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Dalrymple makes another poignant observation. He has observed addicts
laughing and having a great time in his waiting room. But once inside
his consulting office they acted as if they’re “in extremis.” And when he
points out this abrupt change in health, they have admitted they were
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He cites another experiment that shows how addiction is largely a
myth. Morphine addicts, who believed they were being given morphine, but
had only received water, reported their withdrawal symptoms had
disappeared!<br />
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Dalrymple claims that the use of methadone has had a low success
rate. The result is that addicts end up being treated indefinitely with
medication at great cost to society. And he says doctors have a long
history of treating trivial conditions dangerously with drugs such as
methadone.<br />
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This prison expert says there is nothing an addict likes more than to
continue his personal way of life and place the weight of
responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own
decisions.<br />
So Dalrymple contends that a useless medical bureaucracy has been
established to deal with addicts. After all, why would doctors and staff
want this merry-go-round to end when it’s become financially lucrative?
In effect, he says, doctors and administrators need the addicts more
than the addicts need them!<br />
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I couldn’t agree more that North America has followed an asinine
approach to heroin addiction that’s causing major public health problems
for this country. Years ago, I interviewed Singapore authorities about
how they had attacked the illegal use of drugs.<br />
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They accused North Americans of being “irresponsibly permissive.”
This message was dispensed on my flight even before landing. A handout
card to passengers read, “Death to drug dealers.”<br />
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Singapore authorities told me that the illegal use of heroin had been
rampart in the country, and destroying young lives. Prime Minister Lee
Kuan Yew decided to stop this trend. He realized you should never show
your teeth unless you’re prepared to bite.<br />
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Criminals quickly got his message when drug dealers were hanged.<br />
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I recently read that Alberta has a rat patrol and has been rat-free
for 65 years. The Albertan policy is to take no prisoners. What a shame
North America doesn’t use the same approach for humans. I’m referring to
human rats that pedal illegal drugs which trigger health problems,
misery and crime at a huge cost to society.<br />
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Congratulations to Dr. Dalrymple his research. So I believe he would
agree that the majority of addicts would be quickly cured by sending
them to northern Canada to chop wood. They would be happy to return
south without the methadone. As Aristotle remarked two thousand years
ago, “punishment is a form of medicine.”<br />
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I’m sure this column will be criticized by do-gooders that it’s a
mortal sin to to deny methadone to addicts. But I believe health care
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VANCOUVER
— You have found a used needle, in one of the last places you ever
expected — or wanted — to see one. On the playground. Inside the
schoolyard. On the beach. Now what?<br />
<br />
Shiloh Sukkau was shocked at
first. Then resigned. Now she’s upset. Same with Joel Reid and Jessica
Leung, and now they’re speaking out.<br />
<br />
Three people, unknown to each
other, living and working in different parts of the city. Finding dirty
needles in public places. Kids’ spaces.<br />
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In this permissive city,
where open drug use is sadly common, people have finally reached a
boiling point. They’re fed up with finding dangerous materials left
behind by intravenous drug users, whose numbers in Vancouver exceed
12,000, according to local health authorities.<br />
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Dirty needles, called “sharps,” along with cooking gear, water ampoules and rubber ties are the most common detritus.<br />
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The
problem isn’t confined to Vancouver’s drug-infested Downtown Eastside.
Used needles with trace amounts of heroin, cocaine, crystal
methamphetamine, prescription opioids and blood are turning up across
the city.<br />
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On one Vancouver street corner, residents were recently
confronted with discarded sharps and, on a wall next to them, the image
of a happy face, drawn in blood.<br />
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Here’s the brutal irony, an
unintended consequence. Millions of needles are handed out in Vancouver
every year, more than in any other Canadian city. Free needle exchanges
funded by taxpayers and private donors are considered an effective form
of harm reduction; clean, disposable “rigs” can help prevent the spread
of such diseases as HIV and hepatitis.<br />
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Most of the used needles
from exchange programs are collected and disposed of properly. But every
year, more than 100,000 needles are carelessly discarded outside,
creating hazards for the rest of us. Last year, the number of needles
recovered outside was a staggering 250,732, according to Vancouver
Coastal Health.<br />
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Shiloh Sukkau is a young mother with an
eight-year-old child attending school in Vancouver’s West End, adjacent
to the downtown core. On Saturday, she found a used needle lying in a
children’s garden that she and other parents built in a city park. Her
daughter’s school, Lord Roberts Annex, takes up about one-quarter of the
same block.<br />
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Sukkau had previously found needles left in and
around the schoolyard. On each occasion she called a local
social-service agency, the Portland Hotel Society (PHS), for help.<br />
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The
PHS has a needle exchange and recovery program and will send someone to
collect used rigs from city parks and other places. The City of
Vancouver, the Vancouver Park Board and other agencies also offer
needle-recovery programs and daily “sweeps.” Clearly, though, these
efforts aren’t enough.<br />
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It’s really upsetting, especially because I’ve been trying to encourage … children to use the (garden) space</blockquote>
For
Sukkau, finding a needle in the school’s outdoor garden plot was a
tipping point. “It’s really upsetting, especially because I’ve been
trying to encourage other parents, teachers and children to <br />
use the (garden) space,” she says. “Now I’m not sure it’s a good idea.”<br />
The
morning after her discovery, Sukkau’s partner found eight more needles
in the same garden, which children had recently planted with vegetables.<br />
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Enough,
they said. Sukkau went public this week, contacting media and local
politicians, asking why residents are forced to deal themselves with
Vancouver’s drug-use problem. <i>With few exceptions, no one in a position
of authority or elected office got back to her.</i><br />
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Joel Reid teaches
music at a Montessori school not far from Vancouver’s False Creek. He
often takes his young students to a nearby park but first, he has to
inspect the place for needles.<br />
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“It’s become a hot spot,” Reid says.<br />
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He
has also encountered people shooting up outside his school; in those
cases, he asks the drug users to move on. “They are very compliant, most
of them,” says Reid.<br />
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Fortunately, he’s not aware of any
needle-related injuries sustained by students. “The kids are pretty
aware. I’ll show them a needle if I find one, and warn them not to touch
one if they find one themselves.”<br />
Jessica Leung and her family
moved to an Eastside neighbourhood last year. She finds discarded
needles as many as four times a week. “Places that families frequent are
being overrun with sharps,” she says.<br />
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The greater, underlying problem, she feels, is “prolific drug use.”<br />
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Like
Sukkau and Reid, she’s found such agencies as the PHS helpful at
collecting sharps. But the situation persists, and, she says, it’s
getting worse.<br />
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Some have suggested installing plastic needle
disposal boxes on street corners, in parks and inside public washrooms.
Leung and the others aren’t convinced they would solve anything.<br />
Would
drug users who currently drop their needles on the ground suddenly
change their behaviour and put their needles safely inside a box? Would a
homeowner want a needle box placed outside their house? Fat chance of
that.<br />
<br />
There is no simple solution. In Vancouver, scattered, dirty
needles are approaching “normal” status, sad facts of city life. It
seems we’re stuck with that.<br />
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bhutchinson@nationalpost.comDavid Bernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05707698404226464547noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7427507395875525183.post-66541195522604500182016-04-27T11:16:00.001-07:002016-04-27T11:16:20.580-07:00JUST DO IT<h2 class="question-title">
<span>A survey about <i>Recovery</i> is being conducted on behalf
of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) and the National
Recovery Advisory Committee (NRAC.)</span></h2>
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