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101 US NY: Editorial: Local Armistice In Drug WarWed, 02 Mar 2016
Source:Ithaca Times (NY)          Area:New York Lines:134 Added:03/02/2016

The national media, yea, the international media is abuzz about the proposed legal heroin injection facility that is included in the "Ithaca Plan" released by the Municipal Drug Policy Committee (MDPC) put into motion by Mayor Svante Myrick. The focus is on the "shooting gallery" because, as U.S. law stands now, it would be illegal to set up such a place without the declaration of an emergency by the governor or the President.

Isn't it just like the national and international media to make a big deal about something that has so much prurient interest and yet is really just a small part of a much broader, more ambitious, more practical campaign?

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102 US NY: Peace on Drugs: An Addict's Perspective on the Drug PlanWed, 02 Mar 2016
Source:Ithaca Times (NY) Author:Cone, Jaime Area:New York Lines:194 Added:03/02/2016

On Feb. 23, the night before Mayor Svante Myrick officially announced the city's new drug plan, there was a panel discussion on the history of municipal drug policy. Ithaca resident Herebeorht Howland-Bolton, 26, surprised the audience of about 150 people gathered at Cinemapolis when he spoke up during the question-and-answer period. He told the audience he had overdosed just four hours earlier in his apartment on the Commons. His girlfriend, Janice, 20, who asked that her last name not be printed in this article, found him unresponsive on the floor and called 911.

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103 US FL: Editorial: Florida Should Make Opioid Overdose AntidoteFri, 26 Feb 2016
Source:Palm Beach Post, The (FL)          Area:Florida Lines:78 Added:03/01/2016

In 35 states and Washington, D.C., you soon will be able to go into a Walgreens and get naloxone, the heroin overdose antidote, without a prescription.

But not in Florida, where heroin is hitting with deadly impact.

CVS is another major pharmacy that is increasing its supplies of naloxone, often sold as the prescription drug Narcan. CVS, too, will be selling it widely in 35 states. In 14 of those states, including New York, California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the chain will be providing it to patients without an individual prescription. Not Florida. Heroin deaths have soared in this state: from 48 in 2010 to 447 in 2014. And our area is arguably the epidemic's epicenter. A startling seven people have died of suspected heroin overdoses this month in West Palm Beach, bringing the total to 11 deaths since December, police reported Wednesday. At this time last year, there were none.

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104 US PA: Officials: County Lacks Facilities To Treat Its ManyFri, 26 Feb 2016
Source:Daily Review (Towanda, PA) Author:Loewenstein, James Area:Pennsylvania Lines:118 Added:02/29/2016

TOWANDA - While Bradford County is experiencing a heroin epidemic, there aren't any treatment facilities for addicts in the county and the ones elsewhere in the region are full, officials said.

Speaking at the Bradford County commissioners' meeting on Thursday, Bradford County Coroner Thomas Carman said the region's drug rehab facilities, which are located outside the county, "are full," so getting a local addict into a rehab facility "is a challenge."

"There are so many people who need treatment, but we don't have enough facilities for them," the coroner said.

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105US CA: Column: Father Fights Opioid Addiction, to Save theSat, 27 Feb 2016
Source:Sacramento Bee (CA) Author:Morain, Dan Area:California Lines:Excerpt Added:02/28/2016

Heroin, Prescription Opioid Deaths Continue to Rise, Despite Controls

Gary Mendell Created Nonprofit Called Shatterproof to Save Other Parents' Children

California Medical Association Lobbies Against Legislation Intended to Fight Opioid Epidemic

Like the pragmatic businessman he is, Gary Mendell came to town armed with facts to make his case, although a few years ago, he never could have imagined discussing the topic at hand, drug addiction.

Prescription opioid sales increased almost fourfold between 1999 and 2010; overdose deaths rose fivefold. There are 25 million addicts; 15 people die every hour of every day of addiction. And so on.

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106 US MD: New Lines In War On DrugsSun, 21 Feb 2016
Source:Baltimore Sun (MD) Author:Rector, Kevin Area:Maryland Lines:239 Added:02/21/2016

Changing Views on Enforcement Meet With Praise and Alarm

As the nation debates the war on drugs, Baltimore has already begun to redraw the battle lines.

Baltimore police have shifted the department's strategy to focus more on largescale, violent players in the drug trade and less on addicts committing lesser offenses.

The result on the street: Drug arrests dropped by nearly 50 percent last year, according to a data analysis by The Baltimore Sun. Police didn't just arrest fewer people for marijuana - small amounts of which were decriminalized in 2014 - but for other illicit drugs, including heroin and cocaine, and for crimes ranging from possession to distribution.

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107 US CT: OPED: It's Time To End The Failed War On DrugsSun, 21 Feb 2016
Source:Day, The (New London,CT) Author:Finizio, Daryl Justin Area:Connecticut Lines:95 Added:02/21/2016

On April 3, 2013, the City of New London, and other municipalities throughout New London County were ground zero for a series of drug raids that the Department of Homeland Security called "the largest in State history."

This 15-month long operation originated in the New London Police Department but grew to involve the U.S. Attorney's office, the FBI, Homeland Security, the State Police, and the U.S. Secret Service. In all, over 100 arrests were made on state and federal charges.

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108 US CT: Heroin In Cross Hairs Of New London PoliceSat, 20 Feb 2016
Source:Day, The (New London,CT) Author:Boyle, Lindsay Area:Connecticut Lines:116 Added:02/20/2016

Chief Margaret Ackley Says All Resources Deployed to Combat Crisis

New London - Police Chief Margaret Ackley said her department is focusing all of its resources to combat the city's heroin problem as a survey of state records shows that proportionately more people are dying from heroin in New London than other municipalities in the state.

According to statistics kept by the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner from January 2012 through September 2015, heroin-related overdose deaths have been occurring at a disproportionately high rate in New London for years.

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109US CO: Drug Overdose Deaths Hit Record Levels in Rural ColoradoThu, 11 Feb 2016
Source:Denver Post (CO) Author:Olinger, David Area:Colorado Lines:Excerpt Added:02/11/2016

Drug overdose deaths are reaching record levels in a surprising corner of Colorado: the windswept southern counties where ranchers graze cattle and farmers raise corn.

In eight counties stretching from Baca west to Rio Grande, yearly overdose deaths have reached the highest level measured by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Denver and Adams counties have hit the same level- 20 or more deaths per 100,000 residents - along with two other Colorado counties.

Altogether, every one of Colorado's 64 counties except Mineral, a sparsely populated county in the mountains, has experienced a rising drug death rate in the last 12 years.

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110US MI: OPED: Drug Task Forces That Lose Money Will Lose TeethThu, 11 Feb 2016
Source:Detroit News (MI) Author:Lerner, Richard Area:Michigan Lines:Excerpt Added:02/11/2016

The administration has opined that our country incarcerates too many people for nonviolent drug offenses. It recently decided to address that problem. However, the only people who are going to be happy about the solution are drug dealers.

In December, the federal government quietly cut almost half of the funding for Drug Enforcement Agency task forces across the country. Police chiefs across the country received a letter from the Department of Justice entitled "Deferral of Department of Justice Equitable Sharing Payments." It explained that drug forfeiture funds, which local agencies receive for working with DEA, would be "deferred" until further notice. DOJ referred to this as a $1.2 billion "rescission" needed to balance its budget.

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111 US MD: Lawmaker Calls for State to Exit Drug War, Focus onSun, 07 Feb 2016
Source:Washington Post (DC) Author:Hicks, Josh Area:Maryland Lines:98 Added:02/07/2016

Maryland Del. Dan K. Morhaim on Friday proposed four bills that would radically change the state's approach to dealing with drug problems, in part by removing criminal penalties for low-level possession and adding an emphasis on addiction treatment.

One measure would create "safe spaces" for drug use, with facilities that provide sterile injection equipment, medical care and connections to social services.

Another bill would establish a pilot program to test the effectiveness of treating addicts with the supervised use of free, pharmaceutical-grade opioids, such as heroin and hydromorphone, with the goal of weaning users off their addictions.

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112 US: Congress Jumping On Opioid-Abuse CrisisMon, 01 Feb 2016
Source:Washington Post (DC) Author:Demirjian, Karoun Area:United States Lines:109 Added:02/02/2016

Congress is homing in on the issue of opioid abuse, which is no accident in a presidential year, when the issue is especially acute in the first-in-the-nation contests in Iowa and New Hampshire.

In fact, it's one of the only possible pieces of legislation that both parties may be able to agree on in what is universally expected to be an unproductive Congress. Ironically, the rosier outlook for opioid abuse legislation is being driven by Republican and Democratic presidential contenders-who are sharing their personal stories about relatives with drug problems with concerned voters on the campaign trail.

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113 US NY: OPED: Just Saying Yes To The Politics Of DrugsTue, 19 Jan 2016
Source:New York Times (NY) Author:Roller, Emma Area:New York Lines:128 Added:01/19/2016

EARLIER this month, former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida opened up on a subject he had once chided reporters for asking about: his daughter, Noelle, who, he said, "was addicted to drugs."

In a video released by the campaign, Mr. Bush speaks plainly about his daughter's struggle, her time in jail and drug court, and her recovery. "I can look in people's eyes and I know that they've gone through the same thing that Columba and I have," he said, referring to his wife.

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114 US MD: Editorial: Helping Addicts RecoverMon, 18 Jan 2016
Source:Baltimore Sun (MD)          Area:Maryland Lines:103 Added:01/18/2016

Our View: Change in Methadone Reimbursement Must Be Carefully Managed

As the number of heroin overdose deaths in Maryland continues to rise, advocates for some drug treatment clinics are expressing alarm over a state proposal to change how such facilities are funded.

The changes are intended to encourage clinics that serve recovering addicts to provide more counseling and other services to people trying to kick the habit.

But the treatment centers fear the new rules could put them out of business if they result in substantial cuts in the reimbursement clinics receive for administering the drug methadone, which is used to wean addicts off heroin and other narcotics. The state needs to adopt a balanced approach that keeps as many drug treatment facilities open as possible but also offers clinics and health facilities more incentives to offer a broader range of services.

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115 US: Drug Overdoses Propel Rise In Mortality Rates Of WhitesSun, 17 Jan 2016
Source:New York Times (NY) Author:Kolata, Gina Area:United States Lines:166 Added:01/17/2016

Drug overdoses are driving up the death rate of young white adults in the United States to levels not seen since the end of the AIDS epidemic more than two decades ago - a turn of fortune that stands in sharp contrast to falling death rates for young blacks, a New York Times analysis of death certificates has found.

The rising death rates for those young white adults, ages 25 to 34, make them the first generation since the Vietnam War years of the mid-1960s to experience higher death rates in early adulthood than the generation that preceded it.

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116 US MD: OPED: Treatment, Not Jail For Addicts, Mentally IllThu, 07 Jan 2016
Source:Baltimore Sun (MD) Author:Persons, Alexander Area:Maryland Lines:122 Added:01/09/2016

As I sat with a client I'll call Grace in Baltimore County District Court in Essex, I watched case after case go before the judge.

It was mostly less serious crimes: theft, possession of paraphernalia, driving without a license and trespassing. But all the cases, except for most of the traffic cases, had elements of mental illness and addiction, like the mother who was experiencing homelessness and hadn't been getting her children to school on a regular basis.

She had prior arrests of possession of a controlled dangerous substance and theft.

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