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the report finds that community-based drug treatment provides bigger crime reduction returns than prison—for every dollar spent on drug treatment in the community, the state receives $18 in benefits [Justice Policy Institute, USA]
The brief concludes that most youth could be managed safely in the community through alternatives that cost substantially less than incarceration and could lower recidivism by up to 22 percent [Justice Policy Institute, USA]
States could improve public safety and save millions of dollars by investing in community-based alternatives, according to two new research briefs released today by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) [JPI, USA]
But what Americans may not know is that many former law enforcement officers have recently stepped forward to speak against the failed War on Drugs [Huffington Post, USA]
he Washington consensus on drugs rests on two widely shared beliefs. The first is that the war on drugs is a failure. The second is that it cannot be changed [Foreign Policy, USA]
The Obama administration’s budget dealt a serious blow to those who support syringe exchange programs to prevent the transmission of HIV, hepatitis C and other infectious diseases [Washington Post Letter, USA]
The report finds non-medical use of prescription drugs a serious threat to public health and safety, with unintentional deaths involving prescription opioids increasing 114 percent from 2001 to 2005, and treatment admissions increasing 74 percent in a similar four-year period [Department of Justice, USA]
Lorraine T. Midanik, dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California in Berkeley, is convinced that the contemporary concept of denial as applied to alcoholism represents a weak link in the disease model of addiction [Addiction Inbox, USA]
Faces & Voices of Recovery honors Pennsylvania Recovery Organization – Achieving Community Together (PRO-ACT) in 2009 because it embodies the power of the organized recovery community [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
Faces & Voices of Recovery honors Pennsylvania Recovery Organization – Achieving Community Together (PRO-ACT) in 2009 because it embodies the power of the organized recovery community [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
This memo authored by John Walsh of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) highlights the key findings of the U.S. government’s most recent comprehensive analysis of cocaine availability [WOLA, USA]
During April, Alcohol Awareness Month, the Second Road featured daily recovery stories from people in recovery [The Second Road, USA]
There are tens of thousands of New Yorkers and their loved ones who are living stories of recovery from alcoholism, drug abuse and problem gambling. Your Story Matters offers these individuals who are ready to share their story an opportunity to do so [Your Story Matters, USA]
The first budget plan submitted to Congress by President Barack Obama includes an overall increase in funding for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) but calls for elimination of the Department of Education’s Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities (SDFS) state grants program as part of $17 billion in cuts to programs deemed wasteful or ineffective [Join Together, USA]
In a major milestone for the addiction field, the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) recently named the first group of board-certified addiction-medicine specialists, recognizing 1,240 doctors who previously had been certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) [Join Together, USA]
A national Join Together policy panel created a Blueprint that state governments need to follow to develop effective alcohol and drug policies that will save lives, restore families and reduce crime [Join Together, USA]
Testimony Of Gil Kerlikowske, Director National Drug Control Policy to the Domestic Policy Subcommittee Oversight and Government Reform Committee. ONDCP’s Fiscal Year 2010 National Drug Control Budget and the Priorities, Objectives, and Policies of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under the New Administration [ONDCP, USA}
A medical-marijuana advocate who grew 32,000 plants on his land in Lake County was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by a federal judge who criticized the law she was applying [San Francisco Chronicle, USA]
California’s medical marijuana law survived its most serious legal challenge today as the U.S. Supreme Court denied appeals by two counties that argued they were being forced to condone violations of federal drug laws [San Francisco Chronicle, USA]
This is the challenge facing Pastor Assis, 36, and the countless other evangelical preachers, whose growing presence in Rio’s violent slums provides the only organized entity aside from drug gangs [San Francisco Chronicle, USA]
