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TABLE OF CONTENTS
JANUARY 1995
- DRUG USE AND DRUG ABUSE
- Monitoring the Future, DAWN Surveys Show Increasing Drug and Alcohol
Use Number of Arrestees Testing Positive for Drugs Rising in Most Areas
One in Six Workers Involved in Fatal Accident Tests Positive for Alcohol
or Drugs Overdose Raises Questions About Stress and Drug Abuse in Hospitals
Passing Illegal Drugs from Mother to Baby Through Umbilical Cord is Not
Child Endangerment in Nevada
- TREATMENT:
- HHS Study Finds SSI Payments Not Helping Drug Addicts and Alcoholics
- AIDS AND NEEDLE EXCHANGE
- Study Finds HIV Prevention Programs for IV Drug Users Must Be Tailored
to Local Needs Study Finds Effectiveness of Needle Exchange Increases With
Rapidity of Needle Turn-In NAS Needle Exchange Study Announced
- DRUG TRAFFICKING
- Dog Who Carried Drugs in Belly May Work for Customs Court Rules Sharing
Drugs is Distribution ALCOHOL College Student Binge Drinking Causes Problems
Throughout School Relation Among Alcohol, Stress, and Depression Studied
Drowsiness as Big a Problem as Drunkenness in Causing Highway Accidents
MADD Takes on Alcohol Ads Alaska Town Bans Alcohol
- PRISONS:
- Survey Finds Wardens Want More Prevention Programs and Alternatives
- SENTENCING
- Another Federal Judge Refuses to Hear Drug Cases D.C. Circuit Court
Upholds Disparate Cocaine Sentencing Scheme Court Upholds Sentence Based
on the Total Drug Amount Carried By Group
- PRESCRIPTION DRUGS:
- New York Legislature Considers Prescription Drug Pricing System
- ATHLETIC DRUG TESTING:
- Supreme Court Strikes Down Ruling for Olympic Gold Medalist
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- California Man Gets $2.75 Million in Compensation for Botched DEA Raid
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Heat Emission Case Consent to Search Does
Not Include Prying Back of Panel, Oregon Court Rules
- FORFEITURE
- Third Circuit Upholds Innocent Owner Defense Double Jeopardy Implications
for Forfeiture Cases Georgia Supreme Court Examines Question of Excessiveness
in Forfeiture Cases New York Times Magazine Author Critiques Law Enforcement
Forfeiture Practices
- MEDICAL MARIJUANA:
- Marylander Argues Medical Marijuana Defense, Public Opinion Supports
Medical Use
- MARIJUANA
- "Our Church" Leader Convicted Cannabis Action Network Tour
Schedule
- INTERNATIONAL
- U.S. Will Resume Information Sharing With Colombia and Peru DEA Says
Cali Cartel Now "The New Kingpins of Cocaine" Colombia's Military
Leaders Fired
- ON CAPITOL HILL
- Republicans Blast Clinton Drug Control Policy
- TABACCO
- Congress Investigates Tobacco Industry Data on Indoor Air Quality Number
of Adult Smokers Unchanged, CDC Reports Older Women Smokers Weaker, Moderate
Drinkers Stronger, Study Finds Michigan Cigarette Tax
- IC FIGURES AND DRUGS
- Prominent Maryland Lobbyist Convicted of Marijuana Possession Oklahoma
Police Chief Charged
- NETWORK NEWS:
- Network Member Ellen Martina Luff Dies
- GUEST COLUMN:
- "Community Policing: An Alternative Drug Control Strategy?"
by Barry Goetz, Ph.D
- CALENDAR
- CONTRIBUTORS
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