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08. September 2017 | International

USA. An Analysis of the Implementation of the 2014 Clemency Initiative - Report Summary

This report analyzes the sentence commutations granted under the 2014 Clemency Initiative. It provides data concerning the offenders who received a sentence commutation under the initiative and the offenses for which they were incarcerated. It exa...

22. August 2017 | International

Managing Increasing Liability Risks Related to Opioid Prescribing

Managing Increasing Liability Risks Related to Opioid Prescribing Yang, Y. Tony et al. The American Journal of Medicine , Volume 130 , Issue 3 , 249 - 250 http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(16)30932-9/fulltext

19. August 2017 | International

USA. 93-Year-Old 'Pill Mill' Physician Gets 10 Years in Prison

A 93-year-old physician in Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced to 10 years in prison earlier this month for illegally prescribing oxycodone and, in the words of federal prosecutors, having "contributed to the opioid epidemic that plagues this communi...

11. August 2017 | International

USA. Doctors at heart of US opioid crisis

When 55-year-old Sheila Bartels left her doctor's office in Oklahoma, she had a prescription for 510 painkillers. She died the same day of an overdose. Her doctor, Regan Nichols, is now facing five second-degree murder charges—one for eac...

07. August 2017 | International

USA. DEA Takes Action Against Doctors for Prescribing Opioids to Patients who Overdose

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is taking action against an increasing number of doctors for prescribing opioids to patients who overdose, according to CNN. The DEA took action against 479 doctors in 2016, compared with 88 doctors in 20...

18. Juli 2017 | International

USA. Goal of nation’s first opioid court: Keep users alive

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — After three defendants fatally overdosed in a single week last year, it became clear that Buffalo’s ordinary drug treatment court was no match for the heroin and painkiller crisis. Now the city is experimenting wi...

15. Juli 2017 | International

USA. It's Time for the U.S. to Decriminalize Drug Use and Possession

This report is the product of a comprehensive review of the public health and criminology literature, an analysis of drug policies in the U.S. and abroad, and input from experts in the fields of drug policy and criminal justice. By highlighting th...

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