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Leveraging justice system to reduce drug use

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According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2011, 17 percent of state prisoners served time for drug crimes (compared to 53 percent for violent offenses, and 18 percent for property crime). Federal … The goal of drug-policy reform should be to …
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Drug–addicted babies on rise in Tennessee

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So far this year, there have been more drug-addicted babies born in Tennessee than in all of 2011, according to statistics released last week by the state Department of Health. “They've been keeping very accurate tabs on the infants … The mothers who …
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Is it time to shut the only women's prison in Israel?

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Later, she landed in prison and subsequently returned to the street, prostitution, drugs, then back to prison, until finally she was discharged. When she received psychological therapy at the rehabilitation hostel, it became clear that whenever she saw …
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