Top orthopedic surgeon Dr Kiran Melkote - also a top official of AHER, a harm reduction group - spoke to seasoned journalist Shantanu Guha Ray on ways to handle the crisis. He answered some tough questions, including why tobacco control is not working in a billion-plus nation like India.
therefore you must protect the taxpayer from that fraud. i m not defending those who are abusing drugs or abusing alcohol. what i am saying is we have to defend the constitution. and if you require someone to admit that they use drugs, on a questionnaire that is a violation of the fifth amendment. to me the constitution trumps all of that. required, you are asking them to fill out a form honestly. not requiring them to say anything. do you tell them they have right against self-incrimination. you say. no you just fill it out. people don t know. come on, bill, it s the constitution. i don t think the supreme court will rule your way congressman. i could be wrong on that. it s a voluntary thing. we are not forcing anybody to fill out anything. they want our money. they can t benefit if they don t fill it out. congressman kucinich, everyone. miller on the missing airliner. the pot vs. tobacco debate and the update on the ferocious cat on oregon that got miller and me in lot of
that happened because there was effort on a whole range of fronts. whether it was families of victims or the medical side of it or the industry becoming involved and legislation. all of those things coming together over time. so yeah, it s the start. it s the start of something and it s the start of something big. and if not for the actions of the white house, congress would have dropped it. background checks are difficult things for some members of the congress. but what we saw from the tobacco debate, once the mystique is broken, once the spell is broken of the lobby, in that case it was a tobacco institute. in this case it s the nra. things change and they can change very quickly. the fact that we are see iin movement at all is hopeful, but is it going to be enough and do we have the challenge of continuing this even beyond some first steps. i mean, we may get something