DIRS.INFO top alerts submit data jurnalism about API
login
Top related persons:
Top related locs:
Top related orgs:

Search resuls for: "Drug Policy"


18 mentions found


☆ America’s New Drug Policy
  + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( German Lopez | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In fact, needle exchange programs can reduce overdoses and drug use over time, by acting as hubs that educate people on safe practices and connect them to addiction treatment. First, lawmakers grew desperate to reduce overdose deaths, which have climbed for decades and surpassed 100,000 annually for the first time in 2021. Second, the overdose crisis is now so widespread that many more people, including members of Congress, know someone hurt by it. “Every single member of the House and Senate has grieving constituents coming in, having buried kids or brothers or sisters or moms or dads,” Keith Humphreys, a Stanford University drug policy expert, said. Previous drug crises disproportionately hurt marginalized populations — such as Black people during the 1980s crack epidemic and poor white people during the 1990s-2000s meth epidemic.
☆ Tangaraju Suppiah: Singapore executes man for trafficking two pounds of cannabis
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Heather Chen | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
Tangaraju Suppiah, a 46-year-old Singaporean, was hanged early on Wednesday in Changi Prison and the family have received a death certificate, his sister Leelavathy Suppiah told CNN. Tangaraju was first sentenced to death in 2018 for “abetting the trafficking of more than one kilogram of cannabis (1,017.9 grams),” according to a statement from the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB). The court found he was in phone communication with two other men caught trying to smuggle cannabis into Singapore. “As is the case for many people currently on death row in Singapore, Tangaraju was forced to represent himself to seek a review of the Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold his conviction. Singapore has a strong reputation as a rule of law country so this concerning omission is not normal,” Perrett added.
☆ Opinion | Is There Still Free Will in Addiction?
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Maia Szalavitz | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
When I was arrested and charged with possession with intent to sell cocaine in 1986, I was addicted to both coke and heroin. I knew that doing this further jeopardized my life prospects and my relationships with everyone I cared about. Was my brain hijacked by drugs — or was I willfully choosing to risk it all for a few hours of selfish pleasure? What makes people continue taking drugs like street fentanyl, which put them at daily risk of death? These questions are at the heart of drug policy and the way we view and treat addiction.
☆ In Jails and Prisons, the White House Sees a Chance to Curtail Opioid Overdoses
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Noah Weiland | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The Biden administration this week accelerated efforts to fund opioid addiction treatment in jails and prisons, a core part of its drug policy agenda, calling on states to adopt a novel Medicaid program that will cover health care for incarcerated people. Under new guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, states can ask the federal government to allow Medicaid to cover addiction treatment for up to 90 days ahead of someone’s release. Public health experts say that providing treatment during that critical period could help people survive the often harsh conditions of jails and prisons, then more easily transition back to the community. “That’s where most people are, and that’s where you’re going to get the most benefit,” said Dr. Rahul Gupta, the director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, referring to the high concentration of incarcerated Americans with opioid use disorder. Neglecting to treat addiction in jails and prisons, he added, comes at the “highest cost to society, to taxpayers.”
☆ Mexico's top diplomat stresses cooperation with U.S. versus intervention
  + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
MEXICO CITY, March 10 (Reuters) - Mexico's top diplomat on Friday criticized comments by former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who had called for increased U.S. involvement in Mexico to tackle drug cartels, saying Mexico "will never allow its sovereignty to be violated." Barr's opinion piece compared Mexico's "narco-terrorist" cartels to the jihadist Islamic State and backed a Republican proposal to give the U.S. president the power to send the military to fight against the cartels. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected the calls for U.S. intervention Thursday, calling them "irresponsible." "We need an effective drug policy, and the illegal flow of weapons into Mexico must stop," Ebrard added. Reporting by Kylie Madry Editing by Chris Reese and Grant McCoolOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Quarter of Ukrainians at risk of severe mental health conditions - adviser
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
GENEVA, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A quarter of Ukraine's population is at risk of developing a severe mental health condition as the country grapples with the year-long Russian invasion, a senior health official said on Thursday. The World Health Organization "estimates that at this time, one out of four people in Ukraine is at risk of severe mental health conditions," Kazatchkine, who also serves as special adviser to the WHO's Regional Office for Europe, said. "Mental health is becoming a predominant public health issue in Ukraine," he told reporters in Geneva. "The economic downturn comes on a background of fragile health systems and very constrained health budgets," he added. Reporting by Cécile Mantovani; Writing by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Andrew HeavensOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
☆ Analysis: Canada's decriminalization experiment no match for toxic drug supply
  + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Anna Mehler Paperny | Thomson Reuters | Toronto-Based Correspondent Covering Among Other Topics Migration | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
In part due to disruptions in supply stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, street drugs are increasingly laced with toxic or unknown ingredients, resulting in drug users overdosing and dying. Police in British Columbia file thousands of drug possession charges annually. Canada faced the challenge of an adulterated illicit drug supply before the United States did and has been quicker to adopt harm reduction tools to address drug overdose cases, said Lindsey Richardson, a research scientist at the B.C. Some of them still buy street drugs. 's latest plan is of no help to him because he runs the risk of taking something deadly each time he buys street drugs.
☆ Hong Kong is criminalizing CBD as a ‘dangerous drug’ alongside heroin
  + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
Hong Kong CNN —Two years ago, cannabidiol was booming in Hong Kong. CBD cookies at the Found cafe in Hong Kong on August 11, 2022. And while CBD products could avoid this trace amount by using a pure form of CBD, most manufacturers mix other compounds for higher potency. From 2019 to early 2022, Hong Kong authorities launched nearly 120 “operations” seizing and testing CBD products from restaurants and shops to warehouses, Secretary for Security Tang Ping-keung said last year. Now “there’s less choice for consumers in Hong Kong.
☆ Starting 2023 with Dry January? We can cut alcohol consumption even more via taxes.
  + stars: | 2023-01-02 | by ( Keith Humphreys | Keith Humphreys Is The Esther Ting Memorial Professor Of Psychiatry At Stanford University School Of Medicine. He Was A Drug Policy Adviser In The Bush | Obama White Houses | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
There is thus a relationship between American alcohol consumption rising and the cost of alcohol falling over the past quarter century. Indeed, the biggest change to federal alcohol taxes Congress has made over the period has been to cut them for craft beer and spirit producers. Reduced alcohol consumption would thus almost certainly deliver large benefits not just to public health but also to public safety. The case for higher alcohol taxes is thus very strong and some advocacy groups are pushing vigorously for them. When the new Congress convenes Tuesday and focuses on America’s addiction crisis, raising alcohol taxes should be at the top of its agenda.
☆ Companies like Airbnb can ban customers based on a criminal background check: Here's how to dispute it if you think yours is in error
  + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Sarah Belle Lin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Companies like Airbnb say they use background checks to help protect the community. Background checks have proliferated but there are common flaws in the system, experts say. Here's what criminal justice experts say about inaccurate background checks and how to file appeals. "They're not really looking at potential risk in terms of public safety, per se," Stewart told Insider. "I think part of it is companies being able to determine their own criteria," Stewart told Insider.
☆ Psychedelic therapies are on the horizon. Who will administer them?
  + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Danica Jefferies | Danica Jefferies Is An Intern With The Data Graphics Team For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +11 min
Psychedelic therapy is nowhere near as simple as filling a prescription and taking a pill at home. A clinical psychologist, she founded and now leads the first accredited psychedelic therapy training program in the U.S. at the California Institute of Integral Studies. The psychedelic therapy program entails 150 hours of instruction and several in-person training sessions. So why the growing interest in using psychedelic drugs for mental health? Treatment with psychedelic drugs is not as simple as giving the patient a pill to take at home, and it’s not for everybody.
☆ Media outlets push fears of officers overdosing from fentanyl exposures. Doctors say it doesn’t add up.
  + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
It’s one of many incidents that has popped up around the country in which first responders believe they have overdosed on fentanyl after brief exposure to the drug. “FLORIDA OFFICER COLLAPSES AFTER FENTANYL EXPOSURE,” a chyron on the right-wing cable channel Fox News blared in this particular case. And, critically, it found there are no confirmed cases of an officer having an overdose after touching fentanyl. When some local outlets in Florida later attempted to question the police narrative about the purported officer overdose, including proof of the drug’s presence, they were met with resistance. “There is a danger to media accounts with unsubstantiated claims of first responders overdosing after brief, accidental exposure,” Wen told me.
☆ Merrick Garland Urges Similar Sentences for Crack, Powder Cocaine
  + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Sadie Gurman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Attorney General Merrick Garland said that the different sentencing treatments were responsible for ‘unwarranted racial disparities.’WASHINGTON—Attorney General Merrick Garland issued prosecutorial guidelines that aim to ease a disparity in sentencing for crack-cocaine versus powder-cocaine crimes, as the Biden administration seeks to reverse decades of drug policy now widely viewed as unfairly punishing Black defendants. Mr. Garland told federal prosecutors in a set of memos on Friday that they should treat powder- and crack-cocaine crimes more similarly. Crack offenders have historically faced steeper punishments based on the now debunked theory that crack cocaine is more addictive than powder.
☆ Elections 2022 shows the Latino vote moving to the right. Here's why.
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Keith Humphreys | Keith Humphreys Is The Esther Ting Memorial Professor Of Psychiatry At Stanford University School Of Medicine. He Served As A Drug Policy Advisor In The Bush | Obama White Houses | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
In the five years prior to the pandemic, Hispanic median household income grew more than twice as much as whites. It follows that, just as people rarely consider quitting jobs or divorcing spouses that they like, they find political change unappealing when they are satisfied with their life situation. There are certainly many Hispanic Americans who are poor and oppressed, but there’s considerable evidence that many are doing better than ever. In this year’s entering class at the University of California, the largest racial and ethnic group is Hispanics. But it’s easy for political junkies to assume that most people follow political nuances closely, when in fact they don’t.
☆ U.S. aims for zero-emissions heavy-duty vehicles by 2040
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( David Shepardson | Megan Rowling | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The United States aims to only sell and produce zero-emissions medium- and heavy-duty vehicles like school buses and tractor trailers by 2040, the U.S. energy secretary agreed at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt on Thursday. The non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) sets a target for 30% of those new vehicles - which include commercial delivery vehicles, buses and trucks - to be zero-emission by 2030 and 100% by 2040. The $430 billion climate, tax and drug policy bill passed in August includes new commercial electric vehicles tax credits, with up to $7,500 for light- and medium-duty vehicles and up to $40,000 for heavy-duty vehicles. “Decarbonizing commercial transport vehicles is critical to meeting our overall carbon emissions targets," Heinrich said in a statement. The EPA in March had proposed tighter standards for 17 of the 33 sub-categories of vocational and tractor vehicles, including school buses, transit buses, commercial delivery trucks, and short-haul tractors.
☆ Colorado just legalized ‘magic mushrooms,’ an idea that’s growing nationwide
  + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Danica Jefferies | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
DENVER, CO - MAY 19: "u201cFun guy"u201d with harvested Mazatec psilocybin mushrooms from their growing tubs May 19, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. Bills that would decriminalize possession have been introduced in 19 states — including Missouri, Iowa and Kansas — though none have been enacted. And more than a dozen states — including Florida, Oklahoma and Texas — have introduced legislation to further study the health benefits of psilocybin. Some opponents of the Colorado measure say it would promote using these substances before the FDA says they are safe. "I'm hoping the rest of the country can learn the hard lessons from my state's foray," said Luke Niforatos, who leads two national organizations that opposed the drug legalization measure.
☆ After Biden’s announcement on cannabis and racial equity, what's next?
  + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Beau Kilmer | Beau Kilmer Is The Mccauley Chair In Drug Policy Innovation | Co-Director Of The Drug Policy Research Center At The Nonprofit | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
President Joe Biden’s announcement about cannabis policy reform last week underscored how keeping it illegal disproportionately harms people of color. Biden’s move is an important step in changing the federal approach to cannabis. Some jurisdictions are considering how cannabis tax revenues could be used to address racial disparities. For example, Evanston, Illinois., is using some of its cannabis tax revenues to support slavery reparations. Cannabis legalization isn’t just a yes-or-no choice.
☆ An unusual startup is looking to raise $20 million to turn coca leaves into the next trendy wellness ingredient
  + stars: | 2022-04-06 | by ( Jeremy Berke | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
The coca leaves will be used to produce an energizing extract for food and beverage products. Coca leaves, minus the cocaine, could become the next hot wellness trend. Power Leaves is targeting a direct listing on the NasdaqPower Leaves raised a $5.4 million seed round in January, valuing the startup at just under $20 million, McCutcheon said in an interview. Power Leaves Corp. Power Leaves has a 15-year agreement with the Resguardo community to source coca leaves, the investor deck said.
<< prev 1 next >>
Total: 18