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Court will decide whether men can use federal law to reduce crack cocaine …
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That law reduces the difference between sentences for crimes committed by crack cocaine and powder cocaine users. The two men argue that because their sentences came after the law's effective date, they should get its lesser prison time. …
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Crack and the courts
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Under the old sentencing guidelines, the penalty for possessing a gram of crack cocaine was the same as that for possessing 100 grams (or about 31/2 ounces) of powder cocaine, with a corresponding difference in mandatory minimum prison time. …
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Feds crack down on Texas Syndicate in SA
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Because four murders are included in the charges, the case could become a death-penalty prosecution if Attorney General Eric Holder signs off on it — a first for the DEA in San Antonio, Fernandez told reporters, joined by members of several law …
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Mineral first responders briefed on drug abuse by MSP captain
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Commenting on other illegal drugs such as ecstasy, marijuana, and crack cocaine, along with misusing prescriptions and Fentanyl pain patches, Pyles said, "We cannot arrest our way out of the drug problem." "What we need is a group, with a collaborative …
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Mom accused of taking baby to crack house
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Investigators said Jones thought the symptoms may be from an old staff infection that resulted in the baby losing part of a finger, but blood tests revealed that the girl was in distress because she had been given cocaine and opiates, detectives said. …
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Death of inmate in Fayette County jail heads to court
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Mr. Ninosky said Mr. Johnson's complaints weren't "a textbook case" of peritonitis and said that was due to the cocaine in his system masking or altering symptoms. Mr. Geary countered that there's no way cocaine consumed around noon on Thursday would …
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Florida AG Plans to Cut Down on 'Crack Babies' in State
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has announced a plan to drastically reduce the number of "crack babies" born in the state. In 2010, more than 25 percent of the babies at a Tampa hospital were born with neonatal withdrawal syndrome, according to an …
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U.S. v. SIMMONS
Timothy Lamont Simmons pled guilty, pursuant to a written plea agreement, to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of crack cocaine, 21 USC § 846 (2006), and was sentenced to 144 …
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Heroin and crack treatment falls
The number of heroin and crack cocaine users needing treatment in England has fallen by 10000 in two years. The National Treatment Agency for Substance Abuse said the number of adults that began treatment for the class A drugs fell from 62963 in …
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Q&A with Amy Mosher-Garvey: On the front lines of the war against heroin
… who works as a drug abuse clinician and chairs the Dane County Chemical Dependencies Consortium, an advocacy and information-sharing group of public and private treatment providers. Mosher-Garvey agreed to provide her perspective on the heroin …
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Heroin and crack cocaine use in decline
New figures show that the total number of drug users entering treatment for heroin or crack cocaine has fallen by 10000 over the past two years. The official data shows that the fall in heroin use is particularly sharp among under 30s with the number …
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Number of young heroin and crack cocaine users at all-time low
By Lauren Higgs Friday, 07 October 2011 Heroin and crack cocaine use among young people has hit a record low since the drugs became popular in the 1980s and 1990s, according to the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA). …
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The Story of Hip-Hop and the Crack Generation
The story starts evolving in terms of the lives of the people selling the drugs. AllHipHop.com: You talked about impact. I want to ask you about crack's long-term impact on the Hip-Hop generation that was children during that era. …
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Dangerous designer drug gaining ground across US
Then they are given intravenous sedatives until the effects wear off, he said. After their hospital stays, some patients wind up at private psychiatric centers, sometimes for treatment for acute psychosis, according to Anderson. The long-term effects …
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