Proposition 36 in Drug Cases: How It Works

Proposition 36 in Drug Cases: How it Works – More info at http://www.shouselaw.com/proposition-36.html In California law, Proposition 36 is a program that allows people convicted of certain nonviolent d…

Keon Mangun found guilty in death of Miranda Gosiak

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27, saying that she had relapsed (following her drug treatment program.) Gosiak's friend Waylon Beto … Dahn will be sentenced to 365 days in jail instead of 48 months in prison due to his agreement to testify truthfully in the Mangun trial. The 48 …
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Why Russia's drinkers resist AA

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To American eyes, something important is missing from Russia's effort to fight alcoholism: a recovery movement built around a long, sustained support process that attacks addiction at its core and teaches people how to live a sober life. In the United …
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Alcohol and drug use can progress into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes people do not realize that it has become a problem for them and those around them. The following … The clients there are mostly ones right out of prison. I …
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Prison Near Polk City Could Reopen

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''They're not getting treatment. They're being housed, and I don't know how smart that is," said Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island, at a recent hearing of the committee he chairs, which oversees the prison system's $ 2.4 billion budget. ''This is the …
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