Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

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The panel of drug policy experts suggested that drug possession be punished by a fine or drug treatment rather than with criminal sanction. If implemented, the proposal would look like Portugal's 2001 reforms, which were accompanied by a steep decline …
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Summit eyes heroin, pills

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… said, adding that he was mixed up in the wrong crowd of friends. Pecora said her son's addiction began with prescription painkillers and led to heroin. She said it was tough watching her son, a 2010 graduate of Interboro High School, battle the …
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UFC suspends Bonnar one year; Herman ordered to undergo treatment …

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Retired light-heavyweight Stephan Bonnar, who tested positive for steroid Drostanolone, was suspended for one year while heavyweight Dave Herman, who came back positive for marijuana, was earmarked for a lesser suspension and drug treatment program …
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Brazil: Marijuana use begins at increasingly young age

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“The earlier a drug is consumed, the greater the chance of developing an addiction,” says psychiatrist Clarice Sandi Madruga, who coordinated the survey. This study, which was conducted in 149 municipalities, interviewed 4,607 people, ages 14 and older …
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