Veterans Increasingly Find Service Helps in Court

OBAMA REVEALS STRATEGY TO CURB DRUG ABUSE, WEEK OF MAY 20-26, 2010
(NNPA) – President Obama has outlined a broad initiative to reduce drug abuse in the U.S. over five years, which focuses on treating the problem as a public health issue rather than a criminal-justice problem.

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Both UK And USA Need Changes In Their Drug Policies, The Lancet Reports
US President Barak Obama’s 5-year National Drug Control Strategy, which takes a more balanced approach to the challenges, and stresses prevention and treatment as well as law enforcement is welcomed in an Editorial in this week’s Lancet (a peer-reviewed academic medical journal). In linked Correspondence, UK experts from the Drug Policy Commission (UK) summarize what they propose is needed to …

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Veterans increasingly find service helps in court
Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO — The plea was passionate, dramatic and effective: haunted to addiction by memories of a Bosnian mass grave and the shooting of a teen in Honduras, former U.S. Army Capt. Sargent Binkley robbed two Silicon Valley pharmacies for painkillers.

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