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'Not equal before the law': Why regional drug addicts are often sent to jail, not rehab

A retired judge has backed calls for more drug rehabilitation centres in the bush, warning addicts in regional areas are too often thrown behind bars. John Nicholson SC served as a New South Wales District Court judge for more than a decade and regularly ... read more

Addiction series: A doctor with an addiction

While Greer's position as a doctor certainly placed her in a unique position, prescription drug addiction often ... patient rehab program for medical professionals in Oklahoma. "It was pretty clear I had a problem," she said. "I was lucky. Not very many ... read more

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 tests and sit in group therapy sessions on addiction ... read more

Catholics and America’s Changing Face of Drug Addiction

A recent spike in drug-overdose deaths among young whites has highlighted how the social scope of addiction ... families who often struggle alone, too filled with shame to ask for help. “The clientele for your 12-step meeting may not be the same as ... read more

He lost it all to meth. The marriage. The money. The job covering crime.

And as was often the case these days, Scott Moyers ... in jail after the first arrest and warned him he was not cut out for that life. Scott didn’t fit in with the junkies, either. He looked like a snitch. He was seen as he was in the beginning, before ... read more

How to solve the Region's opioid crisis? Conference tries to find out

Later, he was in the Porter County Jail, facing multiple felonies and decades behind bars. He planned to kill himself. But something started to change. He attended drug treatment in jail. People recovering from addiction ... idea of, 'Why not me?' 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 treating it was with prison. “Often if the judge ... read more

Dark truth of Oxford student spared jail for stabbing lover: How medic, 24, has history of violence and drug use despite judge saying he didn't want a 'complete one-off' attack ...

Everyone is equal before the law, in other ... resulted from her drug addiction. He told the court her dreams of becoming a surgeon were 'almost impossible' as her conviction would have to be disclosed. But her career options would not be entirely blighted ... read more

Law enforcement grapples with public health approach to opioid abuse

That is not the scenario ... to deal with addiction as a public health crisis instead of a law enforcement one, the state’s treatment systems are so overwhelmed that families often feel most relaxed when their addicted loved ones are in jail. read more

Opioids in Yakima: Medication-based treatment gains traction

Tyler Douglas first went into rehab for drug addiction at age ... all these chances to do it before,” he said. Among myriad treatment programs and equal opportunities to sink back into addiction, Douglas’ story is not uncommon, providers say. read more