an ulcer and organ damage from his opioid use. But, he added, optimistically, "l'm deal- ing with it, you know?" Another middle-aged man drew murmurs Of encouragement When he announced his wife had recently helped him get an appointment tO see a psychiatrist. people fighting addiction are, on average, more likely t0 alSO suffer from Other serious health conditions, such as mental illness. Their drug use takes a t011 on their bodies, leading t0 problems like gas- tritis and liver disease. And they are at greater risk Of congestive heart failure and pneumo- ma, according tO the Association for Behavioral HeaIth and Wellness. Heroin addicts are at high risk for HIV, AIDS and hepatitis C because of their use ofneedles. ln addition to ramping up Medicaid funding and getting more people insured, one 0f the primary ways Obamacare has tried tO combat drug use is by making it easier for addicts t0 get the health care they need. ln addition to requir- ing insurers tO cover mental health and addic- tion-related servlces, the law has created new programs tO encourage care that brings all the doctors treating a patient together in one coor- dinated system. "We need to find ways to get them intO comprehensive and well-coordinated treatment," Saloner says, "[but] if there aren t the resources t0 make it happen, it s probably not going t0 happen ・ lt takes time tO deploy a network Of case man- agers or t0 enroll people in programs like Agus's that help those in treatment get on Medicaid and link them tO primary care physicians. Several states, including Maryland, have pilot programs tO better centralize care, including for people battling addiction. But they're not widespread. And Frank, the Harvard economist, says it will take more time before the supply Of treatment facilities catches up with demand. Even with the surge msurance coverage and public and pri- vate investment since Obamacare, 'those things don't come up overnight," he says. And you need the workforce tO dO it. The funding pipeline has also been slow to reach providers. Agus says she's struggling t0 find funding to expand her programs, which ・ ncludeproviding -me art- nering with local jails tO help treat inmates leav- ing prison. Though Baltimore has the highest rate 0f opioid-related deaths in Marylandßhe's been unable tO secure money from the city and is instead turning tO private foundations. The concern now is that the threats tO Obamacare will continue tO SIOW or even halt the progress being made. The Trump White House asestablishedaOmnuss10mondrug addictio and opioids. And the Health and Human Ser- vices Department has started tO hand out state grants funded by a bill Congress passed lastyear. But as Frank pointed out in a January op-ed, that law's $ 1 billion in funding for opioid treatment is a fraction 0f the estimated $ 5.5 billion worth 0f mental health and addiction treatment funding Obamacare covers for low-income people each year. And if the latest version 0f the GOP plan, currently under negotiation, becomes reality, states would be allowed tO waive the "essential health benefits, ” which would add another road- block t0 treatment. "We know what happens tO... addiction and mental health care under msurance when you don't have those types Of requirements," says Frank. "You're looking at significant cutbacks. Miller understands why people might be pushing t0 repeal Obamacare. She believes the law has hurt some Americans, including her, by increasing health insurance costs. But she's UNDER OBAMACARE, ADDICTS HAVE STARTED TO RECEIVE MORE ACCESS TO TREATMENT, BUT PROGRESS HAS BEEN SLOW. willing t0 pay that price. "lt affected a 10t more people in a better way," Miller says, particularly when it comes tO mental health and addiction. while she doesn't think the government is responding tO the opiOid crisis with the urgency it should, it'sstill farADettevthan the alterna- tive—repealing Obamacare and shrinking fed- eral health care funds. "l'll put it this way, Miller says, before Obamacare, there's noth- ing tO talk about be c ause [tre atme nt option are] nonexistent, SO at least there's [now] some- ng there for our loved ones. ”ロ P A G E 0 N E / D R U G S NEWSWEEK 21 MAY05, 2017

THERE'S NO HOME REMEDY: As a result, Frank says, you saw a lot 0f Miller became an advocate ⅲ Mary- P OPLE FIGHTING money being poured into setting up sub- land after watch- stance use disorder clinics and such in ing her husband A DICTION ARE, ON and son struggle anticipation 0f [patients ] expanded pur- tO find adequate A RAGE, MORE LIKELY chasing power" shortly after the law was treatment fO 「 their addictions. passed. NOW RepubIicans are not only T ALSO SUFFER FROM thre atening t0 shrink the marketplace O HER SERIOUS HEALTH but also targeting the reqmrement that C NDITIONS, SUCH AS msurers cover addiction tre atment and related health services. M NTAL ILLNESS. Of course, when it comes t0 fighting addiction, the impact Of Obamacare is more promise than reality. Millions more drug addiCtS now have insurance cover- Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg school age because Ofthe law, but that has not translated into a significant jump in the number 0f people of Public Health professor Brendan SaIoner, the report's lead author. Besides a lack Of insurance, getting treatment. A report published earlier this year found the uninsured rate for people suffer- there are plenty ofother barriers. Among the opi- ing from mental health or addiction problems Oid users Agus works with in Baltimore, there is ropp edbyxoughlya. -quarterbetwe gma about addiction and distrust ofmedical 2014 , largely thanks t0 Obamacare s expansion providers in neighborhoods that have had little contact with them. lt's not as if they're Jump- of Medicaid. However, the use of mental health ing intO treatment,'she says. ー Saloner lists a few eatment went up by only 2 percent, and the rat other hurdles: "They may not know where t0 go, Of addiction treatme nt did not change. Frank, however, notes that if you lOOk at treatment there may not be treatment programs where they live," and there are Often long waiting lists for rates just for low-income people, there are signs hey've increased fair bit. available program s ・ Waiting lists remain a problem in the Appala- lnsurance coverage iS necessary but not suff. - ianSoothiIIE0fwe sterm M a and , 9 nt=to-getpeopleftreatmentforaddictionysays ・ N E W S W E E K 19 M A Y 0 5 , 2 017

to Carin Miller, the founder 0f Maryland Her- Oin Awareness Advocates. She says the standard waiting time tO get intO a detox facility in we st- ern Maryland is four to SIX weeks, which is an mprovement: lt used tO be six-plus ” weeks. MiIIer lives in Mount Airy, one ofmany idyllic CiviI War-era towns that dot this largely rural area about an hour west ofBaltimore. Like Other parts Ofrural America, it has seen a spike in 0P1- oid-related overdoses this decade, particularly smce 2013 , when a dangerous form 0f the drug fentanyl began tO make its way intO the heroin supply across the East Coast. Maryland saw its opioid-related deaths increase by 50 percent between 2013 and 2015 , a surge in fatalities that prompted Republican Governor Larry Hogan tO declare a state ofemergency earlier this year. Like many activists trying tO draw attention tO the OPiOid criSiS, the cause IS personal for Miller. She started what has become a statewide network Of treatment advocates and support groups after both her husband and son strug- gled tO find treatment for addiction tO Perco- cet. She considers herself fortunate, she says, because unlike many families she's worked with, her son and husband are still alive. Miller says She iS now seeing posltlve movement from some public offcials and health provid- ers, but it's far from the response she d expect say, "a hurricane came through here. ' Much like a natural disaster, the opiOid epidemic has left a path ofdestruction in people's lives, Miller says. "They end up with no money, no health care, unhealthy body, bad teeth, and there's just SO many symptoms that come along. These health challenges were evident at a March meeting Of the Project Connections sup- port group in east Baltimore. One 50-something man with a t00thy grin and an easy laugh ticked 0 代 his issues: glaucoma, high b100d pressure, MANY PATHS TO SICKNESS: The secondary COStS Of an opioid addiction include the many health issues hat devastate an addict's body. NEWSWEEK 20 MAY05 , 2017

P A G E 0 N E / D R U G S RIGHT WING RELAPSE The new lan to kill Obamacare could just as it shows signs O progress IT WAS AN uncharacteristically qulet afternoon at Dee'S place, a warehouse turned community cen- ter tucked down an alleyway in blighted east Bal- timore, but Deborah Agus was nervous. Perched on one ofthe metal folding chalrs that lined part Of the warehouse , she alte rnate d betwe e n cau- tious optimism and anxiety about the future Of the opiOid tre atment programs she runs. The root ofher fears lies about an hour away, ln Washington, D. C. , where Republicans are push- lng a new plan t0 repeal Obamacare and funda- me ntally re structure Me dicaid, the 50 -ye ar- 01d government health program that covers Amer- ica s poor and disabled. Obamacare not only made people in Agus s program—mostly poor working men—eligible for Medicaid but also helped them access the health care services they need t0 deal with addiction, as well as the pano- ply ofhealth issues that often accompany it. For our program, getting people on Medicaid is key, ” says Agus, adding that the Republicans' plan t0 dramatically shrink federal Medicaid funding would be "devastating ・ " She was hopeful, how- ever, that it wouldn't pass. lndeed, the failure of the GOP health care overhaul in March Offered a temporary reprieve t0 thousands 0f people working t0 stave 0 代 the opi0id crisis. But as president Donald Trump and House Republicans signaled in April, they're still looking to revive their repeal. And the provi- sions they're pushing as part Of their latest com- N E W S W E E K promise could lead tO deeper cuts in addiction treatment programs, a blow tO states at the epi- center ofthe crisis, including Trump strongholds such as West Virginia and Kentucky. A year ago, ⅲ the thick ofthe 2016 presidential election, b0th Democrats and Republicans prom- ised a maJOr assault on opiOid addiction. The reality, however, has yet tO match the rhetoric, with funding and tre atment options still lagging well behind the need. Under Obamacare, addicts have started tO receive more access tO treatment, but progress has been slow. As Agus explains, it's taken time for "the ge ars [tol get movmg. But the Republicans proposals, she says, would "stop things that had been finally moving forward. Part of the problem: The GOP's attempts to undo the Democrat-backed health law are lead- lng tO uncertamty among msurers and investors. And that will likely result in further lags ・ Harvard Medical School health care econo- mist Richard Frank says there's a pretty simple reason for the sparse number ofclinics and Other treatment facilities around the country. Before Obamacare, the funding for addiction treatment was minuscule—and it relied almost entirely on grants. The new health care law brought millions more people intO the insurance market, a dispro- portionate number ofwhom suffered from men- tal illness and addiction, and requured insurers tO cover treatment for those conditions as one Of 10 "essential health benefits" requirements. 18 MAY 05 , 2017 BY EMILY CADEI 当 @emilycadei

work there often blame one another, Selah says ・ NO matter whO is in charge, Palestinians have long loathed the checkpoints. lt's all たん ara [shit] , " Masoud says, adding that private guards treat people less "like animals" than the soldiers dO, but overall 'there's no difference. ” For pal- estinians, the checkpoints are both a physical reminder Of the occupation—and a tremendous mconvenlence. Each day, tens Of thousands of the checkpoints benefit from privatization. They Palestinians cross intO lsrael for work, business, recelve a competitive salary and have long-term SChOOl, medical care, prayer and Other servlces— job security. Yet the shift isn't cheaper for the that is, ifthey can secure the right lsraeli permit. Defense Ministry, as employing private guards With offcial unemployment in the west Bank iS more expensive than using conscripted S01- at 26 percent, many like Masoud have no other diers. On the other hand, hiring private security option but tO keep trying tO cross over. Delays or creates JObs and bOOSts the expertise Of lsrael's 1SSues With permits can lead S01 れ e palestinians tO security industry, both at home and abroad, lose a day ofwork—or their jobs. says Shira Havkin, who's documented the trend But both lsraelis and Palestinians can lose for the Van Leer lnstitute, an lsraeli think tank. much more at these checkpoints. ln recent years, Yet privatization, crltiCS say, obscures 、Ⅳ hO there have been a spate ofstabbings and car ram- is responsible if there's a problem at a check- mings in the West Bank and lsrael, as Palestinians point—the contractor or the Ministry Of have been assaulting lsraeli soldiers and civllians Defense. lt's a mess,' says Ronit selah, the in lone wolf-style attacks known as "the knife director Of the occupied territories unit at the intifada. ” since 2015 , more than 200 palestimans Association for Civil Rights in lsrael. If pales- and over 40 lsraelis have been killed in this wave timans complain, for example, about something of violence, which shows little sign of ending—no that happened at the Qalandia checkpoint, the matter whO is in charge ofthe checkpoints. ロ mam crossing point between Jerusalem and the West Bank, the many security companies that The Pulitzer Center funded reporting for this article. P A G E 0 N E / I S R A E L GATEKEEPERS: Each day, tens of thousands of Palestinians intO lsrael fo 「 work, business, school, medical care, prayer and other services. NEWSWEEK 32 MAY05, 2017

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young women risk being treated violently by ships, leavmg them in much poorer health, a 2015 their partners, whO believe they are entitled tO study by Hatcher and her colleagues says ・ sex in exchange for provlding financial benefits. South Africa has an abysmal record when it comes tO V101ence agamst women. Between 40 BOth can re sult in contracting H IV. and 50 percent 0f women in South Africa say Much effort and money has been spent on making sugar daddies, or "blessers' as such they ve expenenced intimate-partner violence. How is all this violence linked to HIV? Some men are known, unappealing. One approach, women wh0 participated in Safe and Sound said usmg programs that provide a poor or rural fam- ily with a steady income, is helping to reduce their partners turned violent after the women HIV transmlSS1011 and risky sexual behavior, and disclosed they were HIV-positive. ln Other cases, helping keep girls in schools, says Lopez ・ partners became violent after seeing them take their HIV me dication or using a condom, which reminded the men Of their partner S status. KNEW 灯 WAS NOT A DEATH SENTENCE' Countne s around the world need programs like Among wome n in the program,J ust one-quarter Safe and sound becauseviolence against HIV-pos- said they 'd used condoms the last time they had itive women can lead tO a detenoratlon lll mental sex, fearing the reaction from their partners. health, and some women stop taking medication Sihle—wh0 requested that only her first name and develop smcidal tendencies, says Hatcher. tO be used tO protect her pnvacy—came tO Safe Miranda says she felt anxiety and depression and Sound after almost having a nuscarnage 仕 om after her HIV diagnosis. She didn't stop taking her stress-related complications.While being abused medication, but she 'd shake every fime she t00k by the man who got her pregnant, she le arned she was HIV-positive but didn't tell him, aring he would accuse her 0f cheating on him. The physi- cal abuse continued through her pregnancy, until IF SHE HAD STAYED, she left him. lfshe had stayed, she says, 。 probably by now l'd be dead and buried. SHE SAYS, "PROBABLY BY NOW I'D BE DEAD STOP THE BLESSERS Afnca is the continent bearing much Of the AND BURIED. ” world's HIV burden, ” says UNICEF, the U. N. 's child protectlon agency, and that means mostly girls and youngwomen. Vivian Lopez, an HIV spe- cialist at UNICEF, says adolescent girls and young it, ant1Cip atmg a violent re action from her partner. women around the world have the highest risk Safe and Sound helped Miranda and her partner Of contracting HIV, and a recent UNICEF report get counseling tO speak about their issues. found that three out offour new AIDS infections After the Safe and Sound program ended, occur among girls aged 15 t0 19. Just a quarter 0f Miranda sought out a permanent place tO speak girls and a third 0f boys in South Africa have a with othe r women who understand her dffcul- proper understanding 0f h0W HIV is transmitte d ties. HIV, she says, is rarely talked about in South and can be prevented, according tO the U. N. African media, where offcials "Just brush over it. South Africa offers all pregnant women an HIV She adds, "lf all these media people are scared to test, and if it's positive, they are immediately put face it, how d0 you expect people with it t0 feel? ” on drugs tO prevent the transmssion Of HIV. The More 、 V01 en can benefit 仕 0n1 similar pro- prevention Of mother-to-child transmISSIon iS grams, says sihle. B0th Miranda and Sihle say the a standout success story in south Africa's fight program has helped them confront the ir diagno - against HIV—between 2014 and 2015 , )ust 1.5 per- ses and lead healthier lives. If you re not doing cent ofbabies born in South Africa had HIV, while hatyou'resupposed t0 do"—taking medication nhcreaseintheuse«antiretroviravtreatme and good care ofyour health— you re going t0 die led to a 20 percent drop in child mortality• fast," says Miranda. "You can t talk about the light Lopez says gender inequality is one factor at the end of the -tunnelifyou don't eve n get in the- H IVinfectiomamongyoung tunnel. I knew [my H Ⅳ diagnosis] was not a de ath women on the continent, as are the many sexual sentence. Let's make it as normal as possible. ”ロ relations between South African men and young women, usually between 15 and 24. These rela- lOns IPS, ln which theman showers his partne Reporting on this story wasmade possible bY a with gifts, money and trips, have a dark side: grant from the INTERNATIONAL REPORTING PRO 」 ECT hicwpai&forflights and a c comm Od at i 0 n PROPHYLACTIC: South Africa 0 升 e 「 s all pregnant women an HIV test, and if it's positive, they're immediately put on drugs t0 prevent the transmission of HIV. 十 53 MAY 05. 2017 N E W S W E E K

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D e spite their natlonalism, Bannon and Dugin have something in common: B0th believe global elite s conspire against ordinary people. The ir enenmes: secularism, multiculturalism, egalitar- ianism. They both think the true glob al ideologi- cal struggle is not between Russia and the United State s but betwe en culturally homogenous groups founded on Judeo-Christian values practicing humane capitalism and an lnternational cro - ny-capitalist network ofbankers and big busmess. Bannon's fiX iS tO revive the nation-state— precisely what Putin s Kremlin is promoting as it backs anti—European Union candidates from The love-in between Trump and the KremIin proved brief. Bannon apparently made no move to lift U. S. sanctions on Russia imposed after the annexation Of Crimea 111 2014. At the same time, damaging allegations—including an unverified dossier alleging contacts between Trump advisers and Russian spies—plagued the White House. ln the wake ofFlynn's resignation in March—he was untruthful regarding his discussions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about the possible lifting of sanctions—Trump tweeted that he would be "tough on Russia"—and the White House announced it would not li 代 sanctions against the ON IS A SELF-STYLED LUTIONARY WHO RE- POR EDLY DESCRIBED HIM- REV B SELF S A "LENINIST ” OUT TO MOSCOW MULE: Bannon shares Dugin's contempt fO 「 secularism, multiculturalism and egalitarianism. Both men be- lieve Ob elites conspire against ordinary people. 十 Hungary t0 France. "I happen to think that the individual sov- ereignty 0f a country is a good thing and a strong thing, ” Ban- non told an audience of Catholic thinkers at the Vatican by video link from the U. S. in 2014. Putin is standing up for traditional institutions, and he's trying tO dO it in a form ofnationalism. Dugin agrees. We are unfairly described as nationalists—but this is not old-fashioned nation- "DES alism in the sense Of ethnic chauvinism but reflects the idea that we believe ln many civiliza- tions that are all equal and have the right t0 their own identity and decide their own course. BOth men are also self-styled revolution- aries. Bannon—though he once worked at G01d- man Sachs—reportedly described himself as a Leninist ” whO wanted tO "destroy the state. And Dugin was the founder ofthe radical nation- alist National Bolshevik Party, whose members have been impnsoned for attempting tO foment armed upr1Sings among Russian minoritles in former SOViet republics such as Kazakhstan. Trump's election was greeted with delight in Russia and encouraged by state television, which lionized him as a man who would finally give Rus- sia respect. ln the early days 0fthe Trump admin- istration, the Kremlin had hoped for a better relationship with Washington based on Trump s promise that he would work closely with Putin t0 destroy the lslamic State militant group in Syria. rump soriginaVteam gavethexremlimeve more hope. B annon was he ad Of strategy. Michael FIynn—wh0 got a $ 40 , 000 fee to appear at the OSCOW anniversary partyof the Kremlin-spon sored RT television channel, where he sat next tO putin—was named national security adV1ser. Rex Tillerson, the former Exxon MobiI CEO, who nego lated a $ ア billion 0 ⅱ exploration deal ⅲ the Russian Arctic with close putin ally lgor Sechin, asappointed secretaryof stat N E W S W E E K ROY THE STATE. ” Kremlin until Crime a was returne d tO Ukraine. At the same time, Flynn s replacement, General H. R. McMaster, along W1th Secretary of Defense Gen- eral James Mattis, seemed tO gain power within the administration and take a harder, more maln- stream Republican line against Russia. Many factors contributed tO Bannon s ouster from the NationaI Security Council: He was instrumental in two travel bans on Muslim coun- trie s that the courts struck down, he was one of the key architects of a failed health care bill, and he was embroiled in a high-profile row with Kushner. But it was also clear in the aftermath Of Flynn's fall that admiration for putin—or any kind 0f appeasement 0f Moscow—has become polit- ically impossible for fear 0f giving congressional and FBI investigators evldence ofcollusion. Bannon S admiration for putin has C01 れ e 1ntO direct conflict with new White House policie s. ln the aftermath ofthe Syria attack, Trump described U. S. relations with Russia as at "an all-time low eversedhis 、 e arlierpositionomNATO, saymg the alliance was "no longer obsolete. " At a G-7 meeting in ltaly, Tillerson spoke out emphatically against the Kremlin. And when he reached MOSE COW tO meet putin, his receptlon was chilly. The political honeymoon between Trump and putin iS over, and Bannon has survived With at least some Jtuce in the White House. The questio now is whether he can dO the same if the Putin- —Trump relationship ends in abitter div 25 MAY05 , 2017

P A F R A N C E R E L I G 1 0 N 工 S L A N D S N R U S S 工 A D R U G S SPYTALK AL-QAEDA KILLING THE NEXT BIN LADEN lnside America's hunt to take out Ayman al-Zawahiri, the elusive leader of Al-Qaeda HE HAS BEEN the forgotten man in the West's de sp e rate c amp aign tO obliterate the lslamic State militant group (ISIS). He didn't even merit a cameo in the celebratory coverage Of Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of し S. Navy SEALs in 2011. For several years, he has been described as the leader ofa spent force. Yet Ayman aI-Zawahiri, bin Laden's mentor and successor, remams a key player in an attack threat tO America that retired Marine Corps GeneralJohn Kelly, the し S. homeland security secretary, says is worse tOday than what we experienced 16 years ago on 9 / 11. ” And if 0 伍 - cials in the Donald Trump administration have their way, al-Zawahiri's name Will soon be as familiar tO the world as bin Laden's once was. The White House signaled a tougher new appro ach tO eliminating al-Zawahiri and his mil- itant allies in early ApriI with the appointment of Lisa Curtis to head the south Asia desk for the NationaI Security Council. A well-known former CIA analyst, congressional staffer and foreign policy hawk in Washington, D. C. 's think tank circtllt, Curtis caused a stir in February when she co-authored a piece arguing that the U. S. "should … hold Pakistan accountable for the activitie s Of all terrorist groups on its s Oil. ” Pakistan s Inter-Service s lntelligence agency (ISI) has b een protecting the Egyptian-born al- Zawahiri, a trained surgeon, since し S. forces evicted Al-Qaeda from Afghanistan ⅲ late 2001 , several authoritative sources tell Ⅳビルた . His most likely location today, they say: Karachi, a teemmg port city 0f26 million on the Arabian Sea. Like everything about his location, there's no posifive proo says Bruce Riedel, a 30-year CIA veteran whO was the top adviser on South Asia and the MiddIe East for the past four し S. presi- dents. "There are pretty good indications, includ- ing some 0f the material found ⅲ Abbottabad, where bin Laden was slain, 'that point in that direction," he adds. "This would be a logical place to hide out, where he would feel pretty comfort- able that the Americans can t come and get him. E I S R A E L Ⅳ耘ん rvrtmg り N00 。。。 k 当 @SpyTalker 」 EFF STEIN BY N E W S W E E K 12 M A Y 0 5 , 2 017