A New Breed of Homeless

The Daily News By Peter Provet, Ph.D. Drugs and homelessness are two of society’s most intractable problems, but they are not much in the news of late. Neither presidential candidate have offered a coherent plan that addresses these intransigent social issues....

Letter to the Editor: Going to Pot

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....

Drug Tests’ Easy Lure

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...