Canada needs to adopt a prison harm reduction program

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

With this interest in addiction treatment, prison health care and advocacy on behalf of marginalized groups, on January 23 On Point: Making Prison Needle & Syringe Programs Work in Canada was held. What is harm reduction? The addiction medicine …
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Greenfield woman heading to prison for violations

Filed under: drug treatment programs in prison

… Common Pleas Court to prison after getting terminated from treatment a second time. Chassidy D. Campbell, 34, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for illegal assembly or possession of chemicals for the manufacture of drugs, a third-degree felony …
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Heroin dealer's mom: 40-year sentence 'unfathomable'

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… reacts to heroin sentencing: Montrose residents Virginia DeMicheli and Ceresa Gonzalez, mother and sister of heroin dealer Stefano DeMicheli, react to news that the 26-year-old was sentenced to 40 years in prison after he failed a drug treatment …
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