US MA: OPED: In Fight Against Opioid Crisis, Civil Commitment
Boston Globe, 04 Nov 2015 - Spurred by an opiate problem that kills three people a day in Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker has proposed controversial legislation to give hospitals power to hold...
View ArticleUS NM: OPED: Helping Nonviolent Drug Offenders Better Than
The New Mexican, 08 Nov 2015 - As reported by The Washington Post and reprinted in The New Mexican ("Justice Department about to free 6,000 prisoners," Oct. 6), the Justice Department is prepared to...
View ArticleUS NM: Column: Difficult Choices When a Judge Faces Addicted
Albuquerque Journal, 20 Nov 2015 - If Substance Abuse Is Not Treated, the Criminal Behavior Will Continue What is my responsibility as a judge when a criminal defendant is suffering from alcohol or...
View ArticleUS MA: Editorial: Treatment Instead Of Jail For Addicts
Boston Globe, 19 Dec 2015 - This fall,a new kind of court session came to order in Massachusetts, one that holds enormous promise for a region coping with an exploding opioid epidemic by offering...
View ArticleUS CO: OPED: Stats Show Current Drug Policy A Failure
The Gazette, 19 Dec 2015 - President Barack Obama's National Drug Control Strategy in 2010 first proclaimed the major policy goals of the administration's approach to the drug problem and the goals...
View ArticleUS: Drug Abuse Rises As 2016 Issue
Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec 2015 - As Campaigns Turn to New Hampshire, Its Addiction Epidemic Draws the Focus of Presidential Hopefuls. MANCHESTER, N.H. - Zach Brewster had a long history of addiction...
View ArticleUS NH: Hopefuls Hear How Heroin Hit N.H. Hard
Chicago Tribune, 23 Dec 2015 - 2016 Candidates Asked to Address Drug Abuse Crisis MANCHESTER, N.H. - Zach Brewster had a long history of addiction and was dealing drugs after flunking out of college....
View ArticleUS MD: A New Tack On Drug Abuse
Baltimore Sun, 24 Dec 2015 - City Police to Offer Aid, Not Arrest, for Low-Level Offenders The Baltimore Police Department, working with a local nonprofit organization, is planning an experimental...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Penetrating Every Stage of Afghan Opium Chain
New York Times, 17 Feb 2016 - ZARANJ, Afghanistan - Shortly after sunrise, an Afghan special operations helicopter descended on two vehicles racing through the empty deserts of southern Afghanistan,...
View ArticleUS CA: OPED: Drug Courts, Now
Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct 2015 - Enrollment in drug courts is declining. Perhaps treatment should be a requirement for addicts, rather than an option. In the year since California voters approved...
View ArticleUS DC: OPED: Heroin
Washington Post, 06 Mar 2016 - America' s epidemic of heroin and prescription pain reliever addiction has become a major issue in the 2016 elections. It's worse than ever: Deaths from overdoses of...
View ArticleUS IL: OPED: 5 Myths About Heroin
Chicago Tribune, 09 Mar 2016 - America's epidemic of heroin and prescription-pain-reliever addiction has become a major issue in the 2016 election. The epidemic is worse than ever: Deaths from...
View ArticleUS MA: OPED: In Fight Against Opioid Crisis, Civil Commitment
Boston Globe, 04 Nov 2015 - Spurred by an opiate problem that kills three people a day in Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker has proposed controversial legislation to give hospitals power to hold...
View ArticleUS CA: OPED: Drug Courts, Now
Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct 2015 - Enrollment in drug courts is declining. Perhaps treatment should be a requirement for addicts, rather than an option. In the year since California voters approved...
View ArticleUS MA: Authorities Crack Down on Drug Use Aboard Fishing
Boston Globe, 18 Mar 2016 - The fight against drug addiction took a new direction this week when Massachusetts Environmental Police and New Bedford police boarded fishing vessels in New Bedford Harbor,...
View ArticleUS IL: Hope Dealer
Chicago Tribune, 20 Mar 2016 - Tim Ryan, a Former Heroin Addict Who Lost His Son to the Drug, Aims to Bring Users into Rehab and Recovery, but Some Question His Methods Two years after emerging from...
View ArticleUS NY: Peace on Drugs: An Addict's Perspective on the Drug Plan
Ithaca Times, 02 Mar 2016 - On Feb. 23, the night before Mayor Svante Myrick officially announced the city's new drug plan, there was a panel discussion on the history of municipal drug policy. Ithaca...
View ArticleUS NY: Peace on Drugs: Police Dubious About Parts of Ithaca
Ithaca Times, 02 Mar 2016 - A Four-Pillar Plan The supervised injection facility for heroin users proposed as part of Ithaca's new municipal drug policy garnered lots of media attention, but not much...
View ArticleUS NM: Column: Difficult Choices When a Judge Faces Addicted
Albuquerque Journal, 20 Nov 2015 - If Substance Abuse Is Not Treated, the Criminal Behavior Will Continue What is my responsibility as a judge when a criminal defendant is suffering from alcohol or...
View ArticleUS NM: OPED: Helping Nonviolent Drug Offenders Better Than
The New Mexican, 08 Nov 2015 - As reported by The Washington Post and reprinted in The New Mexican ("Justice Department about to free 6,000 prisoners," Oct. 6), the Justice Department is prepared to...
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