Split sentencing: What's not to like, LA?
Under California's AB 109 public safety realignment, low-level felons do their time in county jail instead of state prison, and courts have the option to split their sentences between time behind bars and time under supervised release. An offender …
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Re-entry court: Sacramento's spin on realignment
Under realignment, California for the last 21/2 years has been shifting responsibility for the drug addicts and small-time thieves who used to crowd the state prisons to the 58 counties, giving local jurisdictions latitude in how to deal with the …
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Recovered alcoholic launches Go Sober program in Longmont
Go Sober uses Gabapentin, which is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for alcohol treatment, to restore the brain's ability to produce dopamine naturally, said Weeman, who works at Longmont Integrative Family Practice. Gabapentin is used …
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Buffalo Treatment Center for Alcohol & Drug Addiction Announced
A Buffalo treatment center is pleased to announce that programs to help adults and adolescents end their alcohol and drug addiction are now available. Alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and Oxycontin are just a few of the substances that the treatment center …
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Fort Wayne Treatment Center Announces Adult, Adolescent Programs to Tackle …
A Fort Wayne treatment center is announcing that new adult and adolescent programs aimed at tackling substance abuse issues, mainly drugs and alcohol, are now available through Drug Addiction Treatment Centers. These programs expand upon the …
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Question by Maddie B: Why should marijuana be legalized?
Persuasive paper on legalizing marijuana. I need some reasonings

Best answer:

Answer by Aly
It doesn’t need to be. If it ever is legalized people will just abuse it. It should only be used for medical reasons. Like cancer.

Answer by J J
that should be easier then writing on supporting continued prosecution. try writing it the other way, the reasons to legalize with be clearer then.

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Drug awareness poster contest draws 43 entries
All students were eligible to participate in "Drug Abuse: What Parents Should Know and Do," a competition to raise awareness and spread information about drug abuse prevention. The poster contest is sponsored by Frederick County Public Schools, the …
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North Peace Drug Awareness Society recognizes PriceSmart for supporting …
Corporal Jodi Shelkie of the Fort St. John RCMP, representing the North Peace Drug Awareness Society, presented PriceSmart Foods with a plaque for their continued support of the P.A.R.T.Y. Program. The Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth …
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EUPOL COPPS Delivers Training to Police to Enhance Drug Awareness
EUPOL COPPS anti-narcotics experts delivered training to 21 Palestinian Civil Police (PCP) officers to enhance their capabilities in safely identifying types of drugs and suspected addicts,an EUPOL COPPS press release said. The one-day training in the …
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Zoos give hospitalized kids a wild distraction
For kids with cancer, kidney problems or just a broken leg, temporarily forgetting why they are stuck in a hospital can be a step toward recovery. Videos show animals like sharks, meerkats and gorillas eating, romping or receiving care while educators …
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UVa Moves to 10-1 in the ACC by Beating GT
Moments later, Brogdon stole a pass by Georgia Tech center Daniel Miller and went for an uncontested dunk. Tech called timeout with 6:37, trailing 48-44, and would never tie nor … Virginia improved to 10-1 in the ACC, its best start to a conference …
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Sussex County restaurateur receives national humanitarian award
“Apart from my mother, the next best thing in my world was actually getting arrested and put in a rehabilitation center with people who believed in me until I learned to believe in myself,” Haley said. Now, Haley is helping others who may need that …
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What Philip Seymour Hoffman's Sponsor Could Have Done for Him
A haunting writeup in The New York Times Thursday detailed how actor Philip Seymour Hoffman spent his last days after relapsing back into heroin addiction and leaving the home he shared with his partner, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children. Though …
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Authorities: No tainted heroin in North Penn, but heroin use still on the rise
Like many law enforcement officials, as well as those involved in drug treatment and counseling, Dickinson sees a connection between the long-standing epidemic of addiction to prescription opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, and the rise …
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It's Getting Harder For the Feds To Lie About Marijuana and Get Away With It
That's the lesson White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (aka the Drug Czar's office) Deputy Director Michael Botticelli learned earlier this week when he testified before U.S. House Subcommittee on Government Relations. Armed with what …
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Question by emma: how painkillers are abused?
i am curious about the fact that people could get high on painkillers, how is that so?

Best answer:

Answer by Because I said so!
but taking more then your supposed to

Answer by Dalton
Yeah, a lot of people find the smallest excuse to have it prescribed to them so they can legally have a drug.

Pain Killer Addiction A National Epidemic
The United States makes up just five percent of the world's population, yet we consume more than 80 percent of the world's pain-killing medications. "I don't want to say lackadaisical attitude about these drugs for pain management, but they were used …
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Super Bowl pomp countered by retired NFL players' painkiller abuse
Mattiace, from Montville, is now executive director and a substance-abuse counselor at the New Pathway Counseling Service based in New Jersey. In the past two months, he has counseled six former NFL players with painkiller addictions. He is teaming …
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Efforts underway to fight epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse
Every day, 45 Americans die from an overdose of prescription pain medication. Prescription drug abuse now ranks as the fastest growing drug problem in the United States. More people die from prescription drug overdoses than from traffic-related deaths …
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