SPENDING PRIORITIES:

Under the headline, "Funding cut for drug abuse" the Flint (Michigan) Journal on May 15 reported that "money for some drug treatment - including methadone for heroin addiction - has run dry..." as A RESULT, Programs are being told to stop admissions, and to "cut short" care for those already enrolled.

It's clearly time to reconsider our priorities. Hundreds of billions in US taxpayers' dollars in our continuing counter-productive effort to bring peace and democracy to Iraq, but not enogh to provide life-saving treatment for those who desperately need and want it here at home. Every American pays the price for these policies.