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Pennsylvania's Broken Parole System

John Bruhns | Posted 04.30.2013 | Crime
Read More: Drug Treatment, Pre-Release Offenders, Criminal Justice System, Violent Offenders, Moses-Walker-Killed, Broken Parole System, Prisons, Governor Corbett, Parole Violations, Pa Senate Bill 100, Nonviolent Offenders, Parole Board, Community Corrections, Crime News
John Bruhns

Instead of sending technical parole violators back to prison for technical parole violations, the offenders are instead redirected to community corrections centers which cost the state less money than it would to incarcerate an offender in a state prison.

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A View of the Drug War: Stop Blaming Police and Start Emphasizing Personal Responsibility

John Bruhns | Posted 05.15.2013 | Crime
Read More: Parole, Drug Addiction, Law Enforcement, Drug Treatment, Drug War, Police, Illegal Drugs, Legalizing Drugs, Drug-Decriminalization, The War on Drugs, Crime News
John Bruhns

Law enforcement is not blame for the actions of law-breaking addicts who are not receptive to drug treatment. You can only fault law enforcement for their inaction in protecting the public from this element.

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Can the Marijuana Legalization Debate Bring Republicans & Democrats Together?

Howard Meitiner | Posted 12.16.2012 | Politics
Read More: Politics, Drug Treatment, Politicians, Marijuana, 2012 Election, Addiction, Elections 2012, Compromise, Treatment, Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Polarization, Election, Politics News
Howard Meitiner

This back-and-forth controversy over marijuana is like a microcosm of the entire polarized political sphere. But we're losing sight of the common ground here: we all agree that addiction is a disease.

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Drug Deaths: Remember and Reassess

Chelsea Carmona | Posted 10.03.2012 | Impact
Read More: Addiction, Drug Treatment, Drug War, Drug Policy Reform, Youth Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, US Drug Abuse, Youth Drug Violence, Drug Incarceration, International Remembrance Day, Impact News
Chelsea Carmona

Our European counterparts acknowledge the horrific impact drugs have had on their societies, and they continue to pursue more rational policies. Next year, I hope we will join them to assess the damages both drug addiction and drug policy have cost our nation.

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Watch Your Step: There Might Be a Needle on the Sidewalk

Erin N. Marcus, M.D. | Posted 09.26.2012 | Miami
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Drug Addiction, Occupational Health, Drug Paraphernalia, Hepatitis C, Needle Exchange, Public Health, Syringe Exchange, Hepatitis B, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Drug Treatment, Miami-Dade County Health Department, Miami Crime, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Temple University, Public Safety, Children's AIDS Fund, Garbage Disposal, Drug Arrests, Hansel Tookes, Epidemiology, Neighborhood Health, Insulin Syringes, Disease Prevention, Infectious Diseases, Miami News
Erin N. Marcus, M.D.

Given the state's current political climate, it's unlikely Florida will change its drug paraphernalia laws any time soon, which means the residents of inner city Miami will need to continue to watch their step.

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Alex Becker

Gov. Christie: War On Drugs 'A Failure'

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Becker | Posted 07.10.2012 | Politics
Read More: Mitt Romney, Governor Chris Christie, Video, Drug Treatment, Chris Christie, War on Drugs, War on Drugs Failure, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has become the latest leader to condemn the now 40-year-old war on drugs. "The war on drugs, while...

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Talkin' About Chicago's Proposed Pot Ticket: The Kids Are Alright

Kathie Kane-Willis | Posted 06.26.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Drug Treatment, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Marijuana, Rahm Emanuel Chicago Mayor, Decriminalization, Drugs, War on Drugs, Pot, Drug Prevention, Chicago News
Kathie Kane-Willis

The Chicago marijuana ordinance proposal was voted out of the public safety committee last Thursday. What will this mean for the parents, employees and residents of Chicago?

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Donors Should Not be "Partners in Crime" with Rights Abusers

Rebecca Schleifer | Posted 08.25.2012 | World
Read More: Human Rights, Impact News, Vietnam, Human Rights Watch, United Nations, Drug Treatment, Laos, Cambodia, China, Death Penalty, World News, World News
Rebecca Schleifer

Scant attention has been paid to the UN and international donors' human rights obligations and ethical responsibilities with respect to drug control efforts they support, or indeed to safeguards to prevent them from effectively facilitating human rights abuses with their support.

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Alexander Eichler

Executives In Rehab Won't Quit This Habit

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.27.2012 | Business
Read More: Drug Addiction, Employee Rehab, U.S. Economy, Wall Street Rehab, Drug Treatment, Addiction, Executive Rehab, Alcohol Addiction, Corporate Rehab, Rehab, Unplugging, Addiction Treatment, Video, Wall Street, Weak Economy, Addiction & Recovery, Addiction and Recovery, Alcoholism, Treatment, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, Poor Economy, Rehabilitation, Plugged In, Drug Rehab, Business News

When Natalie was in rehab last year, she noticed a lot of people on the phone. Many of the other patients at Passages Malibu -- the California trea...

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Treatment: Because No Life Is Disposable

Howard Meitiner | Posted 03.26.2012 | Crime
Read More: Addiction, Treatment, Chris Christie, Drugs, Substance Abuse, New Jersey, Incarceration, Drug Treatment, Crime News
Howard Meitiner

It's about time more states recognized that low-level drug users are often victims who need help to fight their addictions. As we've said before, incarceration does the opposite of what we want to accomplish -- it turns those nonviolent users into criminals.

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Our Drug War Is the Virus Spreading Our Violent Economy to Mexico

Stephen Hren | Posted 03.23.2012 | Politics
Read More: Violence, Drug Treatment, Mexico Drug War, Drug Legalization, Economy, Politics News
Stephen Hren

It's not that there aren't millions or even tens of millions of Americans that are trying to solve our problems creatively and help create a just and egalitarian society, it's just that they have no power or voice. Consider the drug war.

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Drug Courts: Enter At Your Own Risk

Margaret Dooley-Sammuli | Posted 02.14.2012 | Crime
Read More: Drug Addiction, Drug Courts, Drug Treatment, Drug Policy Alliance, Recidivism, Incarceration, Public Health, Drugs, Drug Policy, Crime News
Margaret Dooley-Sammuli

The drug war is forty years old this year. It's time to step back and ask ourselves what's the best way to solve the problem we're trying to solve -- how to reduce drug abuse and addiction -- and use the best available evidence to guide us.

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Chris Christie Speaks Out Against The Drug War

Posted 12.01.2011 | Politics
Read More: Chris Christie Drug War, Chris Christie, Drug Treatment, Chris Christie War on Drugs, Drug War, Marijuana, Mitt Romney, Medical Marijuana, Governor Chris Christie, New Jersey Drug Court, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Video, Mitt Romney 2012, Drug Policy Reform, Politics News

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) spoke out against the war on drugs on Monday, saying that "we need to do much different and much better than what w...

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Inheriting Alzheimer's: Research See If Disease Could Be Prevented With Drug Treatment Years Before Dementia Begins

New York Times | Posted 12.04.2011 | Fifty
Read More: Alzheimer's Disease, Drug Treatment, Faith in Science, Colombia, Prevention, Health Post50, Phoenix-Arizona, New York Times, Alzheimer's, Genetics, Betancur Family, Family, Fifty News

For the Betancur family, it was a kind of pilgrimage, an act of faith in science. In September, four family members traveled from Medellin, Colombi...

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Obama Says Drug Users Must Be Treated as Criminals

Scott Morgan | Posted 09.27.2011 | Politics
Read More: Drug Use, Drug Treatment, Marijuana, War on Drugs, Politics, Barack Obama, University of Maryland, Drugs, Politics News
Scott Morgan

You cannot present yourself as a proponent of a public health approach while simultaneously advocating the aggressive pursuit, arrest, and imprisonment of people who might need help with a health problem.

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Heroin Vaccine Found To Work On Rats

Posted 09.25.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Drug Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug Treatment, Immunopharmacotherapy, Hiv Infection, Heroin Addiction, Intravenous Drugs, Heroin Treatment, Drugs, Heroin, Heroin Vaccine, Sharing Needles, Vaccines, Video, Healthy Living News

In what could be a breakthrough for addiction treatment, researchers have found it's possible to vaccinate lab rats against the effects of heroin. ...

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Jason Cherkis

Inside Bachmann's Husband's Failed Government Contract

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 08.31.2011 | Politics
Read More: Washington County, Recovery, Drug Treatment, Public Funding, Michele Bachmann, Government Contracts, Marcus Bachmann, Elections 2012, Bachmann & Associates, Tea Party, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Michele Bachmann may have a more personal reason to hate government funding than fellow conservatives. The GOP presidential candida...

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After Outcry, Quinn Scales Back Human-Services Cuts

The Huffington Post | Will Guzzardi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Illinois Budget, Illinois, Drug Treatment, Illinois Budget Cuts, Pat Quinn Budget, Chicago, Willie Delgado, Video, Chicago News

The ordinarily quiet River North neighborhood of Chicago was rattled by gunfire Wednesday afternoon. Reginald Hardaman, a panhandler who for decades h...

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Quinn Cutting ALL Funding From Drug Treatment And Prevention

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Illinois Budget, Drug Treatment, Illinois Budget Cuts, Pat Quinn, Greg Harris, Chicago, Illinois, Medicaid, Drug Prevention, Chicago News

The harsh reality of the budget cuts proposed by Illinois governor Pat Quinn will become very real for tens of thousands of residents, as the state pr...

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Rehab For "Terminally Unique" Lawyers

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Hazelden, Drinking Problems, Drug Addiction, Drug Treatment, American Bar Association, Lawyers, Recovery, Drug Addiction Treatment, Alcoholism, Alcoholic, Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Lawyer, Substance Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholics Anonymous, Georgetown Law School, Healthy Living News
Iris Erlingsdottir

Whether it is because they are members of a stressful profession or because personalities with a penchant for addictive disorders are drawn to the law, lawyers have twice the addiction rate of the general population.

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Lindsay Lohan's "Skid Bid" Will Not Help Her Drug Addiction

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Lindsay Lohan Jail, Drug Addiction, Drug Treatment, War on Drugs, Celebrity Rehab, Lindsay Lohan Rehab, Celebrity Kids, Los Angeles News
Anthony Papa

In my experience doing a 12-year sentence, I witnessed hundreds of drug addicted people cycle in and out of prison. Like Lohan, many were given "skid bids," slang for a short sentence.

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Examining the Viability of Substance Abuse Treatment Today

Deni Carise | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Addiction, Drug Addiction, Addiction & Recovery, Drugs, Drug Treatment, Substance Abuse, Rehab, Health, Healthy Living News
Deni Carise

Regarding rehabilitation programs, defining successful substance abuse treatment as one that produces 100 percent abstinence for the rest of a person's life is a naïve and useless benchmark.

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Moms Unite to End the War on Drugs

Gretchen Burns Bergman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Drug Treatment, Prison, San Diego, Mom, Drugs, War on Drugs, Mexico Drug Wars, A New PATH, Drug Overdose, Prohibition, Overdose, Politics News
Gretchen Burns Bergman

Now is the time to demand an end to the pointless and punitive criminalization of people who use drugs.

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When a Problem Comes Along, You Must Whip It

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Drug Detention, Drug Treatment, Human Rights, Human Right Watch, Aids, Cambodia, Hiv, Vietnam, Drugs, War on Drugs, China, Torture, World News
Joe Amon

"[H]e started to whip me on my back with twisted electrical wire," said Kakada, recalling his detention in a so-called "youth rehabilitation center" i...

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Holiday in Cambodia?

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Unicef, Human Rights, Cambodia, Drug Detention, Human Rights Watch, World News, Drug Treatment, World News
Joe Amon

While for tourists the idea of a Cambodian vacation has become an idyll, for young Cambodians, the Dead Kennedys' lyrics are still very much alive.

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