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What’s worse: declaring war against a social problem or calling for a Marshall Plan to solve it? Both are enduring and popular metaphors. Unfortunately, both lead to bad government decisions [npr, USA]
“We’ve got to put scientific information into policies that make sense and will deliver for Americans,” said McLellan, who left Philadelphia six months ago to become the nation’s No. 2 drug-policy official [philly.com, USA]
In 2008, a total of 1,132 (8 percent) of all substance abuse treatment facilities were certified as Opioid Treatment Programs (OTPs). Of the 1,132 OTPs, 1,044 (92 percent) offered outpatient treatment [SAMHSA, USA]
A total of 1,132 substance abuse treatment facilities (or 8 percent of all substance abuse treatment facilities) operated an Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) in 2008, a percentage that has remained constant since 2002 [SAMHSA, USA]
Rates of past month alcohol use and binge alcohol use were lower among black adults aged 18 or older than the national average for adults (44.3 vs. 55.2 percent and 21.7 vs. 24.5 percent, respectively); the rate of past month illicit drug use, however, was higher among black adults than the national average (9.5 vs. 7.9 percent) [SAMHSA, USA]
[Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
by William L White and John F Kelly: The language used to label alcohol and other drug (AOD) problems exerts a significant influence on people experiencing such problems and on how professional helpers, policy makers, and the public view such people [Faces & Voices of Recovery, USA]
The overarching goal of the subcommittee is to improve the system of care offered in Pennsylvania by expanding to a chronic care model of care [Pennsylvania Drug and Alcohol Coalition, USA]
The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR) at the University of California was created in 2000 to conduct clinical and pre-clinical studies of cannabinoids, including smoked marijuana, to provide evidence one way or the other to answer the question “Does marijuana have therapeutic value?” [CMCR, USA]
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences [Slate, USA]
Their task was to survive in a world that would never again be the same, and they did survive and even triumph, incorporating Jonathan into their lives not as a lost son, but as a living spirit who is with them i a new way [Amazon, USA]
The American Psychiatric Association today released the proposed draft diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) [American Psychiatric Association]
El Paso, with a population of 740,000, and Juárez, with one of 1.4 million, have long been urban sisters, as tens of thousands of people move between the two every day, to work, or shop, or visit. But the cartel war has complicated things here: the violence in Juárez can seem so far away, and yet so close [New York Times, USA]
Along with increased prescribing of long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain, rates of fatal opioid overdoses have risen [Pain Treatment Topics, USA]
This research further indicates that physical access barriers result in treatment denials to persons with physical disabilities and that programmatic barriers may result in similar declines to persons of select disability groups [Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, USA]
Recent research from Canada and the United States has found that physical and programmatic access barriers are common in substance abuse treatment facilities and that such barriers directly lead to service denials to select groups of persons with disabilities (PWDs) [Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, USA]
The nation’s criminal justice system is in need of an overhaul. This is particularly true of its incarceration policies. Too many people are being put behind bars who do not need to be there, at great cost to the states, and not enough attention is being paid to helping released prisoners re-enter society [New York Times Editorial, USA]
She was sentenced to 27 years in prison for a first-time, non-violent crack cocaine offense. She’s spent over 16 years behind bars and has more than 10 left to go. 1 person has the power to bring her home: The President of the United States [dearmrpresidentyesyoucan.org, USA]
By increasing cigarette taxes by $1 per pack, the states could raise more than $9 billion in new annual revenue to help close severe budget shortfalls, while also reducing smoking and saving lives, according to a new report released today by a coalition of public health organizations [Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, USA]
A new paper suggests U.S. military aid does nothing to reduce drug production in Colombia [Slate, USA]
