LARKIN: Program Offers HOPE for Repeat Drug Offenders

LARKIN: Program offers HOPE for repeat drug offenders
We don't know whether we can replicate HOPE's success outside Hawaii, for other substance abuse problems or for other types of offenders. The smart move is to answer those questions before we go all in. In the short run, the necessary studies will cost …
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Garrisons partner with DEA for Take-Back Day April 26
"This is a tremendous opportunity for Soldiers, Families and Civilians to safely dispose of their medications," said Pamela Budda, chief of the Army Substance Abuse Program at the U.S. Army Installation Management Command. "Help us eliminate the risk …
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Gov't Stops Counting Drug Users
Pioneered by Eric Wish in the 1970s, The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring survey (ADAM II)—cancelled as a result of budget cuts—went into what has become the virtual hub of America's drug war: prison. Originally known as Drug Use Forecasting (DUF), it …
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