Our prisons are overcrowded with people, a majority of whom are drug offenders. But thousands will sit and wait to find a spot in the federal Residential Drug Abuse Program, which offers a one year sentence reduction to inmates who successfully complete the drug rehab program.
If you have a loved one who has been incarcerated for drug use or criminal activity, then you know how hard it is to show love without condoning their behavior. It’s heartbreaking to think that a loved one is suffering in prison with no one to help them, even though their own behavior earned them their sentence. However, there are some things that a family can do to help their loved one even while they are still incarcerated. If they were incarcerated for drugs, rehab is generally not an option. Their body has probably already gone through detox just by being in an isolated area, so rehab won’t be much help. What they do need is for someone to help them set goals and try to learn skills that will enable them to integrate back into society; this is the same with all inmates.
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In the age of the Internet, illegal drug sellers have found a new way of distribution. Avoiding street traffic, violence, and face-to-face sales, distributors and buyers can keep their anonymity, purchase from a wide selection of substances, and have the substances delivered safely straight to them.
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Crime and drugs; two words that often go hand-in-hand. Statistics are clear that illicit drugs are at the heart of many crimes committed today. The real question is what can be done about it?
With the recent killings of photographers and reporters who were willing to cover such dangerous crime stories about the drug wars in Mexico, there is now a lot of fear among the media.
United States President Barack Obama and Mexico’s Calderon both agree to work closer to fight the battle on narcotics in Mexico at their recent meeting at the White House Rose Garden. Calderon told Obama that unless American gun flow is curbed in Mexico the drug violence would only continue.
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The war on drugs won a battle recently when troops in Mexico seized 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in Jalisco, a state in the western part of Mexico. The soldiers found the drugs in a Guadalajara suburb called Tlajomulco de Zuniga, according to a recent news article.
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The correlation between substance abuse and domestic abuse must be drawn but experts are hesitant to casually connect the two in a recent article. Nearly 80 percent of cases involving domestic violence also have a substance abuse component. The results of both substance abuse and domestic abuse don’t go away over night and sometimes have the hardest affects on children in the home.
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No one is surprised when illegal drugs are connected to crime. What may surprise people is that legal prescription medications are also increasingly linked to criminal behavior.
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A scary new trend has pharmacists and their technicians a bit on edge with the recent rise in armed robberies at nationwide pharmacies. Law enforcement professionals in the state of Tennessee said that in 2009 there were 35 robberies in their state and all of the criminals were armed.
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