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Dirk Hanson

Articles and health studies about drugs, addiction and alcoholism, including the most recent scientific and medical findings.

Showing posts with label addicts in prison. Show all posts

Showing posts with label addicts in prison. Show all posts

Monday, February 11, 2013

The House That Drugs Built

Eugene Jarecki’s documentary. The following quotes have been excerpted from " The House I Live In," the recent documentary a...

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

The Undiagnosed Epidemic of Incarceration

Prison once again a place for addicts and the mentally ill. Readers may remember the dark day of January 1, 2008, when the U.S. set an al...

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Rehab as Punishment

Why Cambodians, Chinese, and Vietnamese shun treatment—if they can. The term “drug rehab” usually means one of two things to Americans: Ei...

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Drug Addicts Punished in New York Prisons

Drug offenders get “the box” instead of treatment. The common practice of placing drug addicts in “disciplinary segregation” for drug use v...

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Drug Addiction Goes Untreated in Prison

Only 20% of addicted inmates get rehab. Among the many ironies of the American War on Drugs, the situation of drug abusers in prison ranks h...

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