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Long Prison Term Is Less So Thanks to Regrets by a Judge

Long Prison Term Is Less So Thanks to Regrets by a Judge

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — When Denise Dallaire was arrested at age 26 on charges of selling a few ounces of crack cocaine here a decade ago, she was sentenced to prison for more than 15 years. Last month, shackled inside the same court and facing the same … Read more on New York Times

 

Gang jailed for supplying crack cocaine and heroin in Croydon

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'Salt Sugar Fat' by Michael Moss

'Salt Sugar Fat' by Michael Moss

Filed under: addiction signs

Is that place a state of addiction? The book uses the language of addiction liberally — soldiers returned from World War II “hooked on Coke,” kids “lunge” for the sugar bowl, a typical salt lover is a “hapless junkie” — and it's a metaphorical usage … Read more on New York Times

 

Discovery Could Yield Treatment for Cocaine Addicts

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Incarceration Rates for Blacks Have Fallen Sharply, Report Shows

Incarceration Rates for Blacks Have Fallen Sharply, Report Shows

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Statistics Disparity 2009

Published: February 27, 2013. Incarceration rates for black Americans dropped sharply from 2000 to 2009, especially for women, while the rate of imprisonment for whites and Hispanics rose over the same decade, according to a report released Wednesday … Read more on New York Times

 

Brain Shape Linked to Cocaine Addiction

Brain Shape Linked to Cocaine Addiction

Filed under: help for cocaine addiction

… collected brain scans and personality tests from people who had used cocaine over several years — some addicted, some not. While the nonaddicts shared a penchant for risk-taking behavior, the increased gray matter seemed to help them resist … Read more on New York Times

 

Ken Braun: Banning guns will work as well as the war on drugs

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30 Arrested in Online Sexual Predator Sting

30 arrested in online sexual predator sting

Filed under: Crack Cocaine Information Parents

Some suspects brought alcohol, others crack cocaine, but authorities say Robert Blackburn of Ft. Myers brought with him a "sex kit" containing items used for torture including whips and a leather mask. 37-year-old Paul Andrews of Clearwater … "The … Read more on WWSB ABC 7

 

Is prison 'the new poverty trap'?

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Christopher Dorner Ditched Cops' Favorite Tool

Christopher Dorner Ditched Cops' Favorite Tool

Filed under: Basic Facts About Crack Cocaine

In March 2004, Prince Edward Maryland, a onetime X-Files actor and crack-cocaine addict, felt relief as he drove north on Interstate 5 near Bakersfield. Three hours earlier, Maryland had fled a crime scene in Lake Forest, … During a two-hour search … Read more on OC Weekly

 

Why Police Lie Under Oath

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'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Recap: This Sh*T Is On!

'Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills' Recap: This Sh*t Is On!

Filed under: crack cocaine jokes

Each week, the ladies and their constant fighting remind me more and more of high school mean girls on crack/cocaine. So this week, I … Lisa was merely tolerating Adrienne's presence at the tea table and Yolanda thinks Ms. Maloof is a joke. Most … Read more on Huffington Post (blog)

 

Edward I. Koch, a Mayor as Brash, Shrewd and Colorful as the City He Led, Dies

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Inquiry of Democratic Senator Started With a Partisan Push

Inquiry of Democratic Senator Started With a Partisan Push

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“We've never sent a Democrat to jail,” said Ken Boehm, the chairman of the group, the National Legal and Policy Center, as he looked up from a table filled with his Menendez files and engaged in what was to him a bit of wishful thinking. …. tips were … Read more on New York Times

 

Chicago's New Public Enemy No. 1

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Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible

Still Too Good, Too Bad or Invisible

Filed under: The Facts About Crack Cocaine

A black father makes his little girl crack open a crab with her bare hands then flex her tiny muscles like a pint-size N.F.L. linebacker. A black pilot snorts a line of cocaine after a night of debauchery and, just a few minutes before liftoff, knocks … Read more on New York Times

 

Herhold: Thinking back on journalist Gary Webb and the CIA

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Addiction to Painkillers News Report


Addiction to Painkillers News Report – Clip thanks to www.medstores.net No one swallowing doctor-prescribed painkillers does so with the intention of getting addicted. We take them, for example, to ease post-surgery pain or deal with pain related to diseases, such as cancer. Still, for some people with particular natures and certain risk factors — who use these medications for good initial reasons — the risk of addiction exists. Not all prescription painkillers are potentially habit-forming. For example, SSRIs are not, while opiods are.

 

FDA Likely to Add Limits on Painkillers

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