Jails enroll inmates under health law to pass hospital costs to US

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act 2000

Proponents say it also will make recidivism rarer, because inmates released with coverage are more likely to get treatment for mental illness, substance abuse and other conditions that can lead them to crime. "When someone gets discharged from the jail …
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Drug addict first jailed for breaching ASBO talks to Sunday World

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act 2000

But in 2009, when being treated in A&E in Beaumount Hospital, he robbed a prescription pad and forged prescriptions for painkillers. However, it's his recent run-ins with the law that led to him being jailed. Curley is one of five people to be banned …
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Samantha Bangham's Month in Cases: January 2014

Filed under: drug addiction treatment act 2000

The local authority applied for a welfare guardianship order under the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 on the basis that the woman was not habitually resident in Scotland but was present there anD the application needed to be heard urgently …
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