Seattle order to stop drug arrests ‘creating havoc’ for people fending off addicts surviving on theft: expert

Seattle's new drug enforcement approach sparks debate as police and advocates warn of rising crime and open-air drug markets returning to streets.
Richmond Register

Public forum to address delinquency, drug abuse

This is the first year for the collaboration of two Madison County agencies working to decrease local delinquency and substance abuse. A community forum Friday, June 24, is being hosted by the Madison County Delinquency Prevention Council (MCDPC) and the ...

SF drug court was once meant for minor crimes. Now, people accused of violent offenses are getting in

San Francisco's Drug Court is seeing a swelling volume of cases. Some of them have included defendants accused of violent crimes they said were motivated by underlying substance abuse disorders.
Psychology TodayOpinion

Addiction and the Psychology of Deliberate Self-Harm and Suicide

We need a new paradigm for addiction that puts psychology first and recognizes its heterogeneity. Only then will we see that for some, addiction is a form of deliberate self-harm.
Opinion
The Daily StarOpinion

Have we done enough to address the problem of drug abuse?

On May 27, The Daily Star reported that detectives had claimed to have seized LSD, an extremely potent hallucinogenic drug, for the first time in the country during a raid in Dhaka.
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