Highlights In Oregon, only 1 percent of people who received citations for possessing hard drugs asked for treatment. Half showed up for court. State health…
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Coronavirus-Violence May Increase When Criminals Don’t Get Their Drugs
Highlights Most offenders are drug and alcohol dependant. Eighty percent of state inmates have considerable drug histories. Add mental health concerns, and we come to…
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Do Longer Prison Sentences Reduce Recidivism? Federal Drug Trafficking Recidivism is Much Lower Than State Returns
Observations A new report from the United States Sentencing Commission examines a group of 10,888 federal drug trafficking offenders released from US prisons and…
View More Do Longer Prison Sentences Reduce Recidivism? Federal Drug Trafficking Recidivism is Much Lower Than State Returns24 Million Americans Are Current Drug Users
This report presents the first information from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an annual survey sponsored by the Substance Abuse…
View More 24 Million Americans Are Current Drug UsersMore Americans Using Drugs. Marijuana Increases. Use by Kids Grows. Baby Boomers Record Large Gains.
Crime in America.Net Gentlereaders: Drug use continues to increase. Criminology 101—increased drug use means more crime. Criminology is filled with endless references to drug…
View More More Americans Using Drugs. Marijuana Increases. Use by Kids Grows. Baby Boomers Record Large Gains.Emergency room visits for pharmaceutical drugs double
Crime in America.Net Gentlepeople: The two reports below provide some perspective as to drug use in the United States. The reports deal with emergency room…
View More Emergency room visits for pharmaceutical drugs doubleNew cocaine users continue to decrease to the lowest number since 1973. Marijuana and ecstasy increase.
Crime in America.Net Use of Prescription Pain Relievers Remains Stable Our analysis: The news on first time use of cocaine is wonderful considering the connection…
View More New cocaine users continue to decrease to the lowest number since 1973. Marijuana and ecstasy increase.The Drug-Crime Connection Remains Strong. Marijuana is the Prominent Drug
Whenever we post statistics about the marijuana-crime connection, we get a ton of e-mails from disbelievers who feel that any connection is completely overblown. The…
View More The Drug-Crime Connection Remains Strong. Marijuana is the Prominent DrugPain Reliever Abuse-More Than a Fourfold Percentage Increase
Pain Reliever Abuse– More Than Fourfold Percentage Increase of U.S. Treatment Admissions The percentage of admissions to state-funded substance abuse treatment programs involving pain reliever…
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