America, It's Time for an Intervention: Drug Overdoses Are Killing More People …

America, It's Time For An Intervention: Drug Overdoses Are Killing More People …

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According to the latest available data from the Centers for Disease Control, drug overdoses were responsible for 38,329 deaths in 2010, 30,006 of which were unintentional. That's a rate of 105 every day, and that number doesn't take into account the 6 …
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Bill would restore authority to judges

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

Barborak said the laudable goal was to get drug offenders into rehabilitation and also decrease prison rolls, but it went too far by including drug dealers. Under the law, drug dealers caught for the first time selling up to $ 1,000 in heroin must …
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… operate in nine counties, have worked to keep drug offenders from re-offending. Second, the programs have saved $ 12 million in their first four years by keeping offenders out of jail or prison, state Corrections Secretary Ed Wall told Wisconsin …
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Democratic senators propose alternative to Jerry Brown's prison plan

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Jerry Brown's plan for meeting a court order on prison overcrowding, in large part by providing grants as incentives for counties to expand rehabilitation, drug and mental health treatment programs for criminal offenders. Under the plan, the state …
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