Minority Men Are Given Fewer Opportunities for Drug Treatment Instead of Jail …

Minority Men Are Given Fewer Opportunities For Drug Treatment Instead Of Jail …
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Dependence on drugs like cocaine and heroin is widespread in American prisons where more than half of inmates have a history of substance abuse and addiction. And many systems don't offer medical treatment for addiction, despite the drastic reduction … Read more on ThinkProgress

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Experiments on monkeys that had been permitted to self-administer cocaine, then were deprived of it, showed that when the monkeys were later put into social groups and allowed to resume self-administering the drug, the socially dominant monkeys had not … Read more on Timaru Herald