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Many People Left to Make Their Own Stimulant Pipes and Face
Sep 27, 2023 · A cross the globe, people who use stimulants have devised creative, sometimes ingenious, smoking tools. Often used to heat up and inhale crack cocaine or methamphetamine, these homemade implements are regularly made of whatever’s available—particularly in jurisdictions where access to new pipes and stems, such as …
One Drug Dominates Our Prison's Supply. We Don't Know What It …
Apr 27, 2022 · D uring the pandemic, the Michigan Department of Corrections suspended all Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, “substance abuse” classes and support groups, many of which have still not resumed. O ur yard access was limited, our phone time reduced. Our visits with loved ones turned into partitioned visits with masks on, each prisoner’s 45 visitation hours each month cut down to six.
US Appeals Court Blocks Securus, Pay Tel Bids to Stall Prison Call …
Nov 21, 2024 · T he landmark Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations poised to bring down costs of phone and video calls for incarcerated people will move forward as planned, despite an onslaught of lawsuits and delay tactics from the corrections industry. The first of the new FCC caps will be enforced January 1, 2025. On November 18, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ...
Rescheduling Hearings Begin: Not About If Marijuana "Good or …
Dec 2, 2024 · T he first Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hearing on the Biden administration’s cannabis rescheduling proposal took place on December 2, with proponents and opponents appearing for a largely procedural meeting to prepare for more substantive hearings in 2025.. The judge overseeing the proceedings made clear that the hearings are not meant to determine “whether marijuana is good or ...
The “Reemergence” of Carfentanil
Dec 6, 2024 · P roponents of the Controlled Substances Act like to characterize fentanyl analogs as more potent and thus more deadly than fentanyl—if you want to keep the public afraid of drugs, each new one has to be scarier than whatever came before.But for the most part fentanyl analogs are sometimes a bit more potent than fentanyl and sometimes a bit less, which is a boring explanation with no shock ...
US Continues to Spend Billions on Drug War in Lower-Income …
Dec 5, 2024 · U nited States taxpayers continue to fund a destructive and deadly drug war in low- and middle-income countries across the world, with almost $13 billion allocated to counternarcotics efforts since 2015, details a new analysis.. A joint report, “A World of Harm,” released on December 4 by Harm Reduction International and the Drug Policy Alliance reveals the extent of the funding dispensed ...
In Prison, a Sex Conviction Is a Target for Assault. Staff Pretends ...
Dec 11, 2024 · C oming into the Tennessee men’s prison system nearly 30 years ago, I assumed that my murder conviction would make me the most hated of my incarcerated peers. I imagined a life of solitude, persecution and ridicule. I did not yet know that prison has a social hierarchy in which one type of conviction is always at the bottom, but it isn’t murder.
DEA Raises ADHD Med Production Quotas. It Could Just Fix the …
Sep 10, 2024 · T he Drug Enforcement Administration is allowing pharmaceutical companies to produce a higher volume of Vyvanse and its generic versions. The “abuse-deterrent” stimulant, which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat ADHD and binge-eating disorder, went generic in 2023 but has remained only sporadically accessible to patients.. This is unlikely to have much i mpact on the ...
Pharmacists’ Opioid Decisions: From “Social Sorting” to Policing
Dec 12, 2024 · [This article is excerpted from the book Policing Patients. You can read Filter’s interview with the author here.. P harmacists’ choices about whether to dispense opioids depend on how they categorize patients, a process sociologists call “social sorting.” Pharmacists sort patients by posing the same questions physicians ask: What kind of patient is this?