Drug Addicts to Be Given Foil to Encourage Treatment
Drug addicts to be given foil to encourage treatment
Filed under: crack cocaine sentencing disparity
New laws will allow drug treatment providers to offer the foil as part of efforts to get addicts into treatment, and to protect their health. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) made the recommendation. Home Secretary Theresa … The … Read more on BBC News
Derrick Z. Jackson: Marijuana use points to racial disparity
Filed under: crack cocaine sentencing disparity
The vast imprisoning of blacks finally offended Congress into reducing crack and powder cocaine sentencing disparities in 2010. Three years later, we are in an equally offensive war, one in which the ACLU says police cast "a wide net" over black … Read more on Monterey County Herald
The Problem: Addiction Epidemic in Ocean County and throughout New Jersey …
Filed under: crack cocaine sentencing disparity
Coronato has charged the two men under the state's infrequently used "Strict Liability in Drug-Induced Deaths" law, which the Legislature passed in 1986 to combat what was then a surge in "crack" cocaine use. Strict liability prosecutions are rare in … Read more on NJ.com (blog)