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Teens claim they were used as fake rehab clients

(CNN ... not abuse drugs. But when she was a teenager in foster care, several times a month, she would board a van at her group home and go to rehab. Byers couldn't figure out why she had to take drug ... read more

Treatment no longer behind bars

Section 35 of Massachusetts General Law ... sent to prison without having committed a crime. Because addiction is a disease, Spilka said, it didn’t make sense to her that part of the way the state was ... read more

Race for Chicago mayor: Candidate surveys

I will work with property owners to manage costs and ensure pipes are replaced before the lead problem gets worse. The idea that Chicagoans would not all have equal access to clean ... opioid and drug ... read more

Working for sobriety: Recovery program took some clients’ disability pay

Before Misener left, a Firstep staff member drove him to the bank to cash his disability check and took 95 percent of the money — all but $8. Misener said it was the beginning of the month when he lef... read more

Cahill releases five-point plan to combat heroin (updated)

The act, which was part of the overall budget and not subject ... Scheiderman put drug dealers before victims by championing reckless legislation that diluted the power of law enforcement and made it ... read more

Beyond the Drug War: Drug Policy, Social Interventions, and the Future

The drug war is over for me. It’s immoral, it’s destructive, and worse, it’s not effective ... rather than jail. Jail doesn’t fix an addict. It does punish them, and often that worsens things. Ramping ... read more

Rehab versus prison for criminals

She sent people to jail. "And I'd tell them don't drink any more and don't use other drugs and I would literally wag my ... which is a person's emotional thermostat. Addiction was not a matter of choi... read more

Experts: Washtenaw County's heroin problem only beginning

The Slippery Slope The more the heroin spreads, the greater the effect the drug has on the community — not only ... Time and again, law enforcement and addiction specialists point to opioid prescripti... read more

Criminalizing the Opioid Epidemic is No Way to Help Chronic Pain Sufferers

As drug involvement increases, it is almost entirely fed by street drugs—most often heroin ... to reduce addiction or promote recovery. A June 2017 report by the Pew Charitable Trusts confirms these o... read more

Jail director says some inquest recommendations aren't realistic

If jail staff had to open and close each door at night during their half-hour checks, “I think I’d have a riot on my hands,” Fox said on a tour of the lockup last week. The harsh clang is one reason w... read more

West Virginia editorial roundup

Why not? Judging from ... America is enduring a death toll equal to Sept. 11 every three weeks,” the report reads. That’s just how serious the opioid epidemic is, a point that the White House Commissi... read more

Teens Claim They Were Used as Fake Rehab Clients

She did not abuse drugs. But when she was a teenager in foster care, several times a month, she would board a van at her group home and go to rehab. Byers couldn’t figure out why she had to take drug ... read more