Police Ordered to Return Items Seized From Drug–treatment Facility
Police ordered to return items seized from drug–treatment facility
Filed under: residential drug treatment
A Washington County Circuit Court judge has ordered that items seized by Hagerstown police during a search of Wells House be returned to the drug-treatment facility pending a hearing on a preliminary injunction. Judge John H. McDowell on Friday ordered …
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Afghan drug addicts run groundbreaking restaurant in Kabul
Filed under: residential drug treatment
Inhaling deeply on a cigarette, Laila Haidari sits on the floor of a new Kabul restaurant wondering if it will one day allow her to repay an eye-watering $ 26,000 borrowed from friends to launch a daring project to aid Afghan drug addicts. Haidari plans …
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Videoconference-Based Addiction Treatment Programs Such as Lionrock …
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Generally, Intensive Outpatient Treatment is a level of treatment for substance abuse that fits into the continuum of care which moves from the highest intensity, Residential Treatment, through Day Treatment/Partial Hospitalization, to Intensive …
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Dale Gieringer and Dorsey Nunn: Citizen Action Award Winners (2011 Intl. Drug Policy Reform Conf.)
The Robert C. Randall Award for Achievement in the Field of Citizen Action which honors citizens who make democracy work in the difficult area of drug law and policy reform, goes to Dale Gieringer and Dorsey E. Nunn. Gieringer has been the state director of California NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) since 1987 and is the author of the Marijuana Medical Handbook. He is also vice-chairman of the national NORML board of directors. He has published research on the economic benefits of legalization, medical marijuana usage, the history of marijuana and drug prohibition, potency testing, marijuana and driving safety, and drug urinalysis. He was one of the original co-authors of California’s medical marijuana initiative, Prop. 215, the proponent of Oakland’s Measure Z cannabis initiative in 2004, a sponsor of California’s path-breaking legaliza¬tion bill, AB 390, and a consultant on numerous other cannabis reform campaigns. Nunn is the executive director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and for more than 25 years has advocated for the civil rights and empowerment of people who are incarcerated, at risk for incarceration or affected by a family member’s incarceration. He has played a pivotal role at the intersection of drug policy reform and advocacy for those who have been or who are incarcerated, including making substantial contributions to the campaigns to pass Proposition 36 (the nation’s largest treatment-instead-of-incarceration …