Items tagged with drug courts
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Stop blaming banned drugs for the devastation caused by prohibition [07.06.2018] | New Zealand was poised for drug reform in 2007 when the Law Commission was tasked to review the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975. In 2011 after a four-year i... |
It’s time to kick our addiction to the war on drugs [25.04.2017] | As New Jersey Governor Chris Christie takes the lead in crafting the Trump administration’s response to the opioid crisis, he and his colleagues need... |
‘Addicted to punishment' [13.04.2016] | Latin American leaders may be patting themselves on the back for engineering next week’s Special Session of the UN General Assembly in New York to re... |
Courts are forcing marijuana users to get drug treatment they probably don’t need [13.12.2015] | Opponents of marijuana legalization often cite the "skyrocketing" number of people seeking treatment for marijuana addiction in their arguments. Proj... |
How America overdosed on drug courts [18.05.2015] | Drug courts celebrated their 25th anniversary last year. Hailed as the most compassionate way for the criminal justice system to deal with addicts, d... |
Drug courts: Equivocal evidence on a popular intervention [24.03.2015] | Some countries have adopted drug treatment courts as a way to reduce drug-related incarceration. Drug treatment courts, also called “drug courts,” ar... |
Federal government set to crack down on drug courts that fail addicts [04.02.2015] | The federal government is cracking down on drug courts that refuse to let opioid addicts access medical treatments such as Suboxone, said Michael Bot... |
Drug courts, meant to aid addicts, now a battlefield of pot politics [25.07.2014] | Many longtime supporters of drug courts have become dismayed by the extent to which the courts now reach into the lives of people whose only infracti... |
Ganja laws: The Government's case for reform [14.06.2014] | On June 2, Cabinet approved certain changes to the law relating to ganja. These relate to the possession of small quantities for personal use, the sm... |
Moving Away from Drug Courts [30.04.2014] | Drug courts have spread across the country, yet available research does not support their continued expansion. Most drug courts do not reduce impriso... |
A case for use of resources [16.03.2013] | High Court Judge Randall Worrell shocked Barbadians when he suggested laws here should be reviewed to decriminalize drug use and possession for perso... |
Obama Hasn’t Reformed Criminal Justice—Could Romney Do Better? [12.04.2012] | Whose website laments that in the United States today we have “more than one million nonviolent offenders fill the nation’s prisons,” and sings the p... |
Pills and progress [11.02.2012] | On a recent evening, some 50 people turned up for their weekly reckoning at Judge Joel Bennett’s drug court in Austin, Texas. Those who had had a goo... |
Controlling and Regulating Drugs [03.05.2011] | The New Zealand Law Commission was asked to address the efficacy of the Misuse of Drugs Act in reducing the demand for, and supply of, drugs prohibit... |
Drug Courts Are Not the Answer [29.03.2011] | While drug courts have helped many Americans, they are not an appropriate response to drug law violations nor are they the most effective or cost-eff... |
Addicted to Courts [22.03.2011] | America’s growing reliance on drug courts is an ineffective allocation of scarce state resources. Drug courts can needlessly widen the net of crimina... |
Drug Courts Are Not the Answer [21.03.2011] | Drug Courts are Not the Answer finds that drug courts are an ineffective and inappropriate response to drug law violations. Many, all the way up to t... |
The New York State Adult Drug Court Evaluation [01.10.2003] | By combining drug treatment with ongoing judicial supervision, drug courts seek to break the cycle of addiction, crime, and repeat incarceration. Whi... |
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