PARENTAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE and the EFFECTS on CHILDREN

PARENTAL SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND THE EFFECTS ON CHILDREN – TALK TO YOUR KIDS, SET A GOOD EXAMPLE.

Drug war and mass incarceration, by the numbers

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Despite more relaxed attitudes among the public at large toward non-violent offenses like marijuana use, the number of people in federal prison for drug offenses spiked from 74,276 in 2000 to 97,472 in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Hamilton County May Consider Needle Exchange

Filed under: drug abuse statistics

"It curbs drug abuse, it doesn't increase crime, it doesn't induce people to start shooting up it cleans up our streets and parks, it reduces risk to first responders and children,it gets people into treatment from my point of view I can't see anything …
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Memphis Veterans Court gets k grant

Filed under: drug abuse statistics

The Shelby County-funded Veterans Court, created last July, tries to identify and divert veterans cases to the special court where veterans also can receive help from its team of experts for underlying problems such as drug or alcohol abuse. The court …
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Wrongfully convicted man is free at last after 17 years

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In prison, Armstrong helped teach other inmates who were trying to catch up with high school studies and served as a peer counselor for inmates in a drug and alcohol abuse treatment program. Not once, during his entire incarceration, did he receive an …
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