Calif. Drug Offenders Lapse Despite Rehab -Study
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A groundbreaking California program designed to get drug abusers the medical help they need and alleviate strain on the state&#39;s prison system faced challenges in its first six months, according to a new study.
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A new UCLA study released Nov. 26 reports higher arrest rates among drug offenders diverted to treatment during the first six months of California&#39;s Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA), commonly known as Proposition 36.
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Methamphetamine use is rare in most of the United States, not the raging epidemic described by politicians and the news media, says a study by an advocacy group.
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CHINO, California  - A landlocked California men's prison aims to keep inmates from returning to jail by putting them in deep water -- training them for undersea construction and dam repair.
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A UCLA study concluded that California&#39;s Proposition 36, which diverts non-violent drug offenders to treatment programs instead of jail, has done less to curb re-arrest rates than drug courts or probationary programs, the Los Angeles Daily News reported
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How close are we to winning the war on drugs? It's hard to say, because the statistics on drug use are so murky. Now researchers are trying to fix that
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Parents consistently and substantially underestimate their childrenÂs use of alcohol and other drugs, a new study has found.
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Drug-using prisoners may be given clean needles under a scheme being considered by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS). The service has confirmed it is considering handing out kits to inmates as part of a harm-reduction programme.
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Inmates are reaching the end of their sentences but cannot be freed because they haven't attended treatment programmes.
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Former NL Most Valuable Player Ken Caminiti has failed four drug tests since going on probation in 2002 for possession of cocaine, including one last week that landed him in jail, his probation officer said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK - Hopes for an experimental treatment that had the potential to help the 85,000 Americans who suffer long-term disability each year due to traumatic brain injury were dashed this morning when Pharmos said that its drug, dexanabinol, failed to
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A huge study found that patients on antidepressants rarely get the psychiatric therapy needed right after they start the drugs, a time when risk of suicidal behavior can rise temporarily.
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Nonviolent drug offenders who were diverted to rehabilitation programs under Proposition 36 had higher rates of rearrest than those who remained in the criminal-justice system, a UCLA study released today says.
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Nearly 80 percent of young people who are arrested use illegal drugs or alcohol, but fewer than 4 percent receive substance abuse treatment, says a new study.
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NEW YORK  - A part of the brain involved in  both drug craving and judgment appears to be smaller in cocaine  addicts than in healthy people, researchers have found.
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Fewer U.S. teens are using  marijuana, Ecstasy or LSD but more are bingeing on alcohol and  abusing prescription drugs, according to an annual government  survey released on Thursday.
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Nearly four in five young people arrested for juvenile crimes are involved with alcohol or drugs, and few are getting treatment, a study of the juvenile justice system finds.