> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:46:44 -0700
> From: owner-drugnews-digest@...
> (Drugnews-Digest)
> Subject: MAP: Drugnews-Digest V07 #464
>
> Drugnews-Digest Thursday, April 12 2007
> Volume 07 : Number 464
>
> Read this digest online at:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n464/
>
> 001 Australia: Jungle Behind Beach
> Source: Gold Coast Bulletin (Australia)
> 002 US TX: Sheriff Speaks From Personal Experience
> At Meth
> Source: Texarkana Gazette (TX)
> 003 CN MB: Column: Alcohol, HIV Exposure Tough Way
> To Start Off
> Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB)
> 004 CN BC: Drug Experiment Nearly Proves
> Source: 100 Mile House Free Press (CN BC)
> 005 US AR: Congressman: New Funding Priorities
> Include Law
> Source: Baxter Bulletin, The (AR)
> 006 US NJ: Criminal Records Cost 2 Teachers Their
> Jobs
> Source: Asbury Park Press (NJ)
> 007 US NC: A Few Offenders Keep The Courts Locked Up
> Source: Charlotte Observer (NC)
> 008 US VA: Edu: Column: Drawing The Line On Drugs
> Source: Cavalier Daily (U of VA Edu)
>
>
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>
> Subj: 001 Australia: Jungle Behind Beach
> From: Beth
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:17:33 -0700
> Size: 173 lines 6957 bytes
> File: v07.n464.a01
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n464.a01.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 12 Apr 2007
> Source: Gold Coast Bulletin (Australia)
> Copyright: 2007 Gold Coast Publications Pty. Ltd
> Contact: webmaster@...
> Website: http://www.gcbulletin.com.au/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/620
>
> AUSTRALIA: JUNGLE BEHIND BEACH
>
> IF only the Palm Beach drowning last Thursday was an
> exception to an
> idyllic lifestyle in this sublime stretch of the
> Gold Coast.
>
> Few living on the shoreline at Palm Beach are in any
> hurry to
> move.
>
> This end of the Gold Coast has more than a
> picturesque
> setting.
>
> It is close to important family facilities such as
> schools and
> shopping centres. The waterways and lakes are not
> all pounding surf
> influenced by the elements. The M1 is handy; the
> Tugun bypass is over
> budget but may be finished this year.
>
> The airport is around the corner and the train line
> will eventually be
> running along the M1.
>
> [continues: 146 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 002 US TX: Sheriff Speaks From Personal
> Experience At Meth
> From: Increase Your Media
> http://www.mapinc.org/resource
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:20:56 -0700
> Size: 74 lines 3378 bytes
> File: v07.n464.a02
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n464.a02.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 11 Apr 2007
> Source: Texarkana Gazette (TX)
> Copyright: 2007 Texarkana Gazette
> Contact: lminor@...
> Website: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/976
> Author: Lon Dunn, Texarkana Gazette
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm
> (Methamphetamine)
>
> SHERIFF SPEAKS FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AT METH
> MEETINGS
>
> Bowie County Sheriff James Prince has a unique
> perspective when it
> comes to dealing with methamphetamine users and
> their families.
>
> Three and a half years ago, he had his own
> 31-year-old son arrested on
> drug charges. ‘Its a tough thing to put your
> kid in jail, but a
> lot of people are doing it. The alternative is a
> whole lot worse.
>
> I told my son I would rather see him in jail than in
> a casket' Prince
> said. Prince spoke Tuesday night in Redwater, Texas,
> at the first town
> hall meeting held by the Bowie County Sheriffs
> Office and the East
> Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. He said
> he caught a plane
> to Georgia when he received a phone call saying his
> son might be doing
> drugs.
>
> Once he arrived, his son who just months before had
> called his dad
> every two weeks dodged him for three days.
>
> [continues: 46 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 003 CN MB: Column: Alcohol, HIV Exposure Tough
> Way To Start Off
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:23:29 -0700
> Size: 94 lines 4584 bytes
> File: v07.n464.a03
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n464.a03.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 11 Apr 2007
> Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB)
> Copyright: 2007 Winnipeg Free Press
> Contact: letters@...
> Website: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/502
> Column: The Doctor Game
> Author: W. Gifford-Jones MD
>
> ALCOHOL, HIV EXPOSURE TOUGH WAY TO START OFF LIFE
>
> IT'S an ideal way to write a column. I'm attending a
> medical
> conference while cruising the Caribbean sea. But
> don't think I'm
> goofing off. I'm spending long days listening to a
> variety of
> international speakers. But, as a former ship's
> surgeon, I also love
> being at sea.
>
> One speaker, Dr. George Carson, director of fetal
> medicine at the
> University of Regina, reported on the use of alcohol
> in pregnancy.
>
> Some authorities have a simple solution for the
> tragic habit of
> drinking alcohol during pregnancy. Dr. Christine
> Lock, associate
> professor of pediatrics at the University of British
> Columbia, says
> it's a myth that only irresponsible derelict mothers
> cause serious
> birth defects. Her blunt message, "If we drink in
> pregnancy we place
> our children at risk."
>
> [continues: 66 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 004 CN BC: Drug Experiment Nearly Proves
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:27:16 -0700
> Size: 112 lines 4537 bytes
> File: v07.n464.a04
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n464.a04.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 11 Apr 2007
> Source: 100 Mile House Free Press (CN BC)
> Copyright: 2007 100 Mile House Free Press
> Contact: newsroom@...
> Website: http://www.100milefreepress.net/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2143
> Author: Christopher Cain
>
> DRUG EXPERIMENT NEARLY PROVES
>
> Two young boys are fortunate to be alive after
> nearly overdosing on
> some heavy-duty prescription pills the morning of
> March 30.
>
> With information that two teens were unconscious,
> paramedics and two
> ambulances raced to the 103 Mile area at 6 a.m. Upon
> arrival, the
> emergency crews found the boys semiconscious, gave
> treatment and then
> rushed them to 100 Mile District General Hospital.
>
> Showing no improvement, the 14-year-old boys were
> flown by the Infant
> Transport Team to Vancouver Children's Hospital just
> after 11:30 a.m.
>
> "The information that I have is that it was cardiac
> type medications
> with suspected unknown other substances," said
> Nelson Oler, paramedic
> chief with BC Ambulance Services in 100 Mile.
>
> "I would say it's an increasing occurrence," Oler
> said.
>
> [continues: 84 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 005 US AR: Congressman: New Funding Priorities
> Include Law
> From: Increase Your Media
> http://www.mapinc.org/resource
> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:28:40 -0700
> Size: 106 lines 4573 bytes
> File: v07.n464.a05
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n464.a05.html
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 11 Apr 2007
> Source: Baxter Bulletin, The (AR)
> Copyright: 2007 The Baxter Bulletin.
> Contact:
>
http://www.baxterbulletin.com/customerservice/contactus.html
> Website: http://www.baxterbulletin.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2860
> Author: John Anderson, Staff Writer
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm
> (Methamphetamine)
>
> CONGRESSMAN: NEW FUNDING PRIORITIES INCLUDE LAW
> ENFORCEMENT
>
> U.S. Rep. Marion Berry, the Democrat representing
> Arkansas' First
> District, discussed issues as varied as law
> enforcement and access to
> water with about 20 local officials and residents in
> a forum Tuesday
> morning at the Baxter County Courthouse.
>
> Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery told Berry he
> appreciated the
> congressman's effort to increase funding to law
> enforcement through
> Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grants
> and Byrne grants.
>
> Law-enforcement grant funding had been cut by the
> previous
> Legislature, especially Byrne grants, which go
> toward anti-drug efforts.
>
> President Bush's Office of Management and Budget has
> proposed more
> cuts to the Byrne Grant program for this year's
> budget. On the other
> hand, congressional Democrats have called for adding
> to Byrne-grant
> funding, which has been cut by more than $200
> million in the last two
> years, according to Berry.
>
> [continues: 76 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 006 US NJ: Criminal Records Cost 2 Teachers
> Their Jobs
> From: Educators For Sensible Drug Policy:
> http://www.efsdp.org
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:43:37 -0700
> Size: 95 lines 3904 bytes
> File: v07.n464.a06
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n464.a06.html
> Webpage:
>
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070411/NEWS03/704110322/1007
>
> Pubdate: Wed, 11 Apr 2007
> Source: Asbury Park Press (NJ)
> Webpage:
>
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070411/NEWS03/704110322/1007
> Copyright: 2007 Asbury Park Press
> Contact: yourviews@...
> Website: http://www.app.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/26
> Author: Jason Method, Staff Writer
>
> CRIMINAL RECORDS COST 2 TEACHERS THEIR JOBS
>
> Passaic Firings, One Pending In Atlantic City, In
> Accord With State
> Law
>
> Two school teachers have been fired and a third is
> expected to be
> after an Asbury Park Press database search found
> they had criminal
> records that disqualified them from school
> employment.
>
> Two Passaic teachers were fired this week,
> Superintendent Robert
> Holster said. An Atlantic City teacher also is
> expected to be terminated.
>
> The state Department of Education sent letters last
> week to request
> the employees be fired after state officials
> independently confirmed
> the criminal convictions provided by the Press.
>
> [continues: 68 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 007 US NC: A Few Offenders Keep The Courts
> Locked Up
> From: chip
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:43:21 -0700
> Size: 91 lines 4860 bytes
> File: v07.n464.a07
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n464.a07.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 12 Apr 2007
> Source: Charlotte Observer (NC)
> Copyright: 2007 The Charlotte Observer
> Contact: opinion@...
> Website: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/78
> Authors: Melissa Manware And Gary L. Wright
>
> A FEW OFFENDERS KEEP THE COURTS LOCKED UP
>
> Many Chronic Inmates Are Mentally Ill And Addicted,
> Study Finds
>
> Chronic offenders, most charged with minor crimes,
> are clogging Mecklenburg
> County courts, crowding the jail and costing
> hundreds of thousands of
> dollars a year to keep locked up, according to a new
> study. The study says
> repeatedly locking up the same people -- many of
> them mentally ill and
> addicted to alcohol or drugs -- is not working.
> Finding alternative ways to
> deal with chronic offenders, the study says, will
> free up space in jails
> for people who pose a serious threat to the
> community. "It's frustrating
> for everyone from the arresting officers to the
> prosecutors and others in
> the court system to deal with the same people over
> and over and over
> again," Sheriff Jim Pendergraph said. "I wanted to
> get some facts on paper,
> so the public knows what's going on and where our
> resources are and are not
> going."
>
> Pendergraph asked his research staff to conduct the
> study with Paul Friday,
> a criminal justice professor at UNC Charlotte.
>
> [continues: 63 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
> Subj: 008 US VA: Edu: Column: Drawing The Line On
> Drugs
> From: Kirk
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:45:32 -0700
> Size: 118 lines 5485 bytes
> File: v07.n464.a08
> URL:
> http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07.n464.a08.html
>
> Pubdate: Thu, 12 Apr 2007
> Source: Cavalier Daily (U of VA Edu)
> Copyright: 2007 The Cavalier Daily, Inc.
> Contact: opinion@...
> Website: http://www.cavalierdaily.com/
> Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/550
> Author: Josh Levy, Cavalier Daily Opinion Columnist
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm
> (Decrim/Legalization)
> Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?199 (Mandatory
> Minimum Sentencing)
>
> DRAWING THE LINE ON DRUGS
>
> THE DRUG prohibition causes crime," proclaims Jerry
> Cameron to a room
> filled with rapt libertarians. A former police chief
> with FBI and DEA
> training, Cameron is doing "penance" for his
> seventeen-year law enforcement
> career in the "war on drugs." He spends an hour
> setting forth the case for
> the total decriminalization of all drugs to the
> Students for Individual
> Liberty's delight.
>
> Sadly, Cameron takes it too far. Although he spends
> most of his time
> discussing the legalization of marijuana, he
> supports legalizing all drugs
> and even wants the government to hand out free
> heroin.
>
> It is these types of arguments that let people get
> away with ignoring the
> case for legalizing marijuana.
>
> [continues: 91 lines]
> ------------------------------
>
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