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48 people graduate from 15th Circuit Court’s drug intervention program

The 15th Circuit District includes Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Lawrence, Marion and Pearl River counties. The drug intervention ...
The Beaumont Enterprise

GUEST COLUMN: Drug intervention plan works, if addicts let it

The young lady stood shaking before the judge. She had tested positive for cocaine, and swore it was not possible because she had not ingested cocaine. After the positive test at the probation office, ...
The Stranger

Prosecutors Charge Another Participant in City Drug Intervention Program

Another participant in the city’s Drug Market Initiative (DMI)—an effort aimed at eliminating the open-air drug market along the 23rd Avenue Corridor in the Central District—has failed out of the ...
The White House

Rising to the Challenge Together: How ONDCP and CDC Support Jurisdictions Through the Overdose Response Strategy

Overdose threats are evolving. Our response must keep pace. Drug overdose remains one of the Nation’s most urgent public health challenges, taking nearly 210 lives every day. Overdose deaths fell by ...
Billings Gazette

Drug program seeks early sentencing to help low-risk offenders, address prison overcrowding

The new year will bring a new way for Yellowstone County prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and others in public safety to deal with low-risk and low-need felony drug offenders more efficiently ...