Rep. Jay Neal Reflects on Addiction Recovery Awareness Day 2009


 

Rep. Jay Neal Reflects on Addiction Recovery Awareness Day 2009 – State Representative Jay Neal, House District 1 provides a legislative update from the georgia general assembly on Friday, January 16, 2009. This update features thoughts from Addiction Recovery Awareness Day, the appropriation of funds through state budget, the advantages of rehabilitation versus incarceration for non violent drug offenders, the recidivism rate for drug addicts.

 

Ms. Bongiovi is Not A Criminal

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

To protect public health we need needle exchanges, methadone clinics, safe injection sites, access to ibogaine therapy and drug rehabilitation programs – not jail cells, that do nothing to solve the problem and in many cases make it much worse. Heroin …
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After Failed Death Penalty Repeal, California Could See Spate of Executions

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

But none have been carried out since 2006, when a federal judge ruled that the state's three-drug lethal injection procedure could put prisoners in agonizing pain if administered incorrectly. Though the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation …
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BP to pay .5B in spill case

Filed under: state funded drug rehab

The criminal fine is one of the largest ever levied by the United States against a corporation, roughly equal to the $ 1.3 billion fine paid by Pfizer in 2009 for illegally marketing an arthritis drug. BP has repeatedly said it would like to reach a …
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