by intern | Jun 24, 2000 | in the news
The New York Times By Katherine E. Finkelstein The ambitious plan that New York State’s chief judge announced Thursday – in which most nonviolent criminals who are addicts will be offered drug treatment instead of jail – would be extraordinarily...
by intern | Jun 12, 2000 | in the news
Mental Health Weekly The New York State Office of Mental Health has awarded a $4.7 million grant to Odyssey House, a 33-year-old therapeutic community, to construct a new 46-bed supervised community residence in New York City for adults with co-occurring mental and...
by intern | May 11, 2000 | Letters to the Editor
Manhattan: Parents’ outrage over the treatment their marijuana-smoking teenagers received from the New York City Police Department following the kids’ arrests at a pro-legalization rally in lower Manhattan on May 6 is at once baffling and worrisome....
by intern | Apr 18, 2000 | Letters to the Editor
To the Editor: Re “Family in Texas challenges Mandatory School Drug Test” (front page, April 17): Many of us who work in drug treatment are concerned the enactment of mandatory drug testing of high school students by the Lockney school board in Texas will...
by intern | Mar 10, 2000 | in the news
The Daily News By Peter Provet, Ph.D. Major League Baseball has finally held Darryl Strawberry accountable for his cocaine abuse. While many applaud this decision, it is important to examine his drug abuse in the broader context of chronic addictions across all...