Lyons: Drug Courts Offer Sober Approach to Drug Abuse

Lyons: Drug courts offer sober approach to drug abuse

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Drug addiction is a major societal problem with an annual treatment cost of $ 193 billion each year in crime, lost productivity and health-care costs, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Whether illicit drugs were illegal or not …
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Civic Agenda: Whatcom County offers mental health services

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Statistics show that approximately one in five people will experience a mental illness in their lifetime. The good … Mental health and substance abuse treatment services are provided by Catholic Community Services in our juvenile court and detention …
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Civil liberties erode when drug use widens

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Marijuana intoxication at least doubles the risk of getting into a car accident[x]; costs from marijuana-related hospital stays are substantial[ii]; marijuana addiction costs the state money for treatment; etc. John Stuart … [i] Bureau of Justice …
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Addict shoots for bigger things now

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For more than two decades, Timothy Gulley walked through life under the suffocating cloud of drug addiction. … On Thursday, Gulley returned to the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Chicago's West Side to address the latest round of 18 graduates of …
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