A. Skim through the article to give the main idea.
The worried medical community is accusing the Federal Anti-Drug Service of using technicalities to ensnare doctors while letting harder-to-catch heroin dealers walk free. They say that in a country where drug abuse and related health problems like hepatitis and HIV are spiraling out of control, the anti-drug agencys efforts are misguided, if not downright dangerous.
You cant compare doctors with drug dealers, said Yevgeny Chernousov, lawyer for an abortion clinic director who was charged with dealing illegal drugs.
Even if some dont follow the rules exactly, that doesnt mean they are criminals, he said. What are they supposed to do? Perform abortions without anesthetics?
The Federal Anti-Drug Service, which has been ordered by President Vladimir Putin to crack down on drugs and answers directly to him, defended its actions and pointed out that there are less than 10 criminal cases pending.
We have a responsibility to fight the spread of illegal drugs, as well as to control and limit the use of all drugs, agency spokeswoman Maria Lutsenko said.
In January narcotics agents raided the Blagvest abortion clinic and combed through medical records and other documents for six hours.
The agents said the clinic was using ketamine during operations without a proper license, and Anatoly Koryabin, its owner and director was charged with dealing drugs. If convicted, he faces a sentence of 7 to 15 years in prison.
Koryabin called the charges nonsense and said the clinic has a valid license to use ketamine. He said Health and Social Development Ministry officials even reassured the clinic many times that the license was good through 2007, even though changes to the law in 2000 required them to apply for a new one, which they did.
However, Maria Lutsenko said that the old license was not valid and that the clinic continued using ketamine while their application was being processed and the new license was not yet approved.
Even if that were the case, Chernousov, Koryabins lawyer, said he should only be facing a fine and no prison time.
Lutsenko said that in the eyes of the anti-drug agency, Koryabin is a drug dealer. He accepted money in exchange for the drug, she said.
Lev Levinson, a harsh critic of the agency and head of New Drug Policy, an advocacy group for drug law reform, called the crackdown on doctors a witch hunt that distracts drug enforcement officials from more pressing problems like drug trafficking and the spread of HIV by heroin addicts using dirty needles.
They have 40,000 employees whom they dont know what to do with, Levinson said. They are just searching out these special niches to justify their existence.
Undercover drug agents called up veterinarian Konstantin Sadoledov and asked him to make a house call to operate on a cat. They arrested him after he injected the animal with ketamine to prepare for the operation. In May, a Moscow court largely let Sadoledov off the hook, ordering him to pay a fine of up to 6,000 rubles for possession of an illegal drug although he could have received jail time.
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Koryabin said he is not so sure he will be so lucky, even though Chernousov has appealed to the Prosecutor Generals Office for the case to be dropped.
Whatever happens, one thing is for sure, Koryabin said: He is getting out of the business.
The Moscow News. 2005
B. Summarize the article in English.
C. Answer the question.
1. Which point of view do you support: the authors or the Federal Anti-Drug Services one? Why?
Render the article into English and say what to your mind should be done to make the school anti-drug campaign effective?
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