“Profoundly Offensive, and an Incredible Waste”: Why Are We Busting Drug Users?
“Profoundly offensive, and an incredible waste”: Why are we busting drug users?
Remarkably few African-Americans were speaking out for drug policy reform 20 years ago. Whereas now a growing percentage are basically identifying the war on drugs, in Michelle Alexander's words, as “The New Jim Crow.” So in both those senses, I think …
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Part two: Eureka, meet your the new chief
But, we're also seeing a heavy addiction problem here in the city, with heroin addiction — there's a lot of heroin, and there's also some methamphetamine addiction and so forth — that certainly needs to be dealt with. Now, again, I'm not sure police …
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Riverside Treatment Center Announces Adult, Adolescent Programs to Tackle …
All of the above 2012 percentages of first illicit drug use were similar to the corresponding percentages in 2011. Cocaine, heroin, Oxycontin and benzodiazepines are just a few of the drugs that the treatment center helps people put in their past …
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