Treatment, Not Jail, for Drug Users

Published January 20, 2013

Treatment, not jail, for drug users

Filed under: drug rehabilitation centers

Junior Attorney General for Supervision Marwan Effendy said the law required drug addicts and drug users to be sent to rehabilitation centers for medical treatment instead of being sent to jail. “This is different from Law No. 22/1997 on narcotics …
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Ryan Leaf Moved From Rehab to State Prison

Filed under: drug rehabilitation centers

Former Washington State and NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf was transferred from a drug treatment center in Montana to a state prison because of bad behavior. Leaf was sentenced to a drug rehab center in Lewistown back in June. He was supposed to spend …
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The road to New Mexico's own 'reeferendum'

Filed under: drug rehabilitation centers

Other agencies and programs — Medicaid, mental-health programs, drug rehabilitation programs, prison and jails, would get a cut of the revenue as well. Individual counties that did not want to legalize marijuana could opt out. The constitutional route …
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