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Lowinson and Ruiz's Substance Abuse: A Comprehensive Textbook
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription)
Section 2, “Determinants of Abuse and Dependence,” includes chapters on genetics, neurobiological factors of drug abuse, psychological factors in substance abuse disorders, behavioral aspects, and sociocultural factors. The chapters on genetics and ...
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By Rachel Raskin Vallejo Times Herald VALLEJO, Calif. — A Napa State Hospital patient died while under police restraint Tuesday morning, a Napa Sheriff's Department spokeswoman said. It's the second major incident there since January, a local legislator's spokesman said. The death of Brandon Coates, 29, described as an "especially assaultive and aggressive client," comes ...
By Alicia A. Caldwell Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating how its agents forgot about a college student who was picked up during a sweep and left him in a holding cell for five days without food, water or access to a toilet. Daniel Chong, 24, was never arrested, was not going to be charged with a crime and should have been released, said a law enforcement ...
By Julie Watson Associated Press SAN DIEGO — A college student picked up in a federal drug sweep in California was never arrested, never charged and should have been released. Instead, authorities say, he was forgotten in a holding cell for four days. Without food, water or access to a toilet, Daniel Chong had to drink his own urine to survive and began hallucinating after three days because of ...
By Greg Bluestein Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ga. — Lance Brown was hungry and homeless, so he decided to get thrown in jail by hurling a brick through a glass door at the Columbus courthouse building. Brown, 36, spent nine months in jail before his April trial. On Tuesday, he was sentenced to another month behind bars, and three years of probation that includes a six-month stay in a halfway house ...
By Kevin Johnson USA TODAY The campaign to abolish the death penalty has been freshly invigorated this month in a series of actions that supporters say represents increasing evidence that America may be losing its taste for capital punishment. As early as this week, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, is poised to sign a bill repealing the death penalty in that state. A separate proposal has ...
By Dudley Sharp The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eighty-one percent supported and 16 percent opposed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's execution for the murder of 168 people, 19 of whom were infants. Moreover, 80 percent supported Saddam Hussein's execution. Western European nations, save one, also showed majority support. Polling has consistently found that 80 percent of Americans support ...
Doubts are growing about the reasonableness of the sentencing guidelines, as more judges refuse to follow them
The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County district attorney's office says a sheriff's deputy has pleaded no contest to charges that he smuggled drugs into a courthouse jail by concealing them in a burrito. A Justice System Integrity Division prosecutor says 27-year-old Henry Marin entered the pleas Monday in Superior Court to one count each of bringing drugs into a jail ...
By Steve Visser The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Georgia Bureau of Investigation director Vernon Keenan isn't known for being soft on crime, but he is working to keep one class of "criminals" out of jail. Keenan, like sheriffs statewide, contends law enforcement turns jails into asylums at huge human and financial costs. Now, a study in which the GBI is partnering with the Georgia chapter ...
By Michael Graczyk Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man was spared from the death chamber Wednesday after a federal appeals court refused to overturn a district judge's reprieve for the prisoner who's facing execution for killing a neighbor more than 15 years ago. The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came after attorneys for Anthony Bartee filed a civil rights ...
Michael Bascum Selsor, 57, was executed for killing a Tulsa convenience store manager almost 37 years ago
By Matt Gouras Associated Press DEER LODGE, Mont. — Montana officials on Friday rejected parole for a notorious "mountain man" who abducted a world-class athlete in 1984 to keep as a wife for his son, and then shot her and left her to die during a rescue attempt. The state Board of Pardons and Parole held its third parole hearing for Don Nichols as federal authorities search for his ...
By Kevin Johnson USA TODAY The campaign to abolish the death penalty has been freshly invigorated this month in a series of actions that supporters say represents increasing evidence that America may be losing its taste for capital punishment. As early as this week, Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, is poised to sign a bill repealing the death penalty in that state. A separate proposal has ...
By Todd South Chattanooga Times Free Press CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A 19-year-old Chattanooga man arrested in connection with a shooting Tuesday night was free on bond from murder charges in a separate shooting. Police arrested Demetrius Bibbs on Wednesday for a shooting at 2601 Fourth Ave. that injured 28-year-old Guy Wilkerson. Police believe the shooting is gang-related, according to a news release ...
By Bill Rankin The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A federal prisoner who killed his cellmate because he was a child molester was spared the death penalty Thursday when a jury hearing the case could not reach a unanimous verdict. After deliberating two days, a federal jury in Atlanta could not arrive at a verdict as to whether Brian Richardson should live or die. Without unanimity on death, the sentence ...
Chico Enterprise-Record RED BLUFF, Calif. — While waiting for an inmate work farm to materialize, Tehama County officials are planning a vehicle maintenance station as a work release option to ease jail populations. With the Tehama County Jail feeling the burden of increased population due to state prison realignment in Assembly Bill 109, administrators have had to think fast. AB109, which took ...
This segment of "A View from the Sidelines" was generated by this e-mail by Sgt. Dominic Turner of the Door County, Wis. Sheriff’s Department. Although he is addressing his question on the justification of using force on an inmate based on Wisconsin training standards, his question has application to all correctional use-of-force situations. Remember that the purpose of the View from ...
By Dirk Lammers Associated Press MADISON, S.D. — A 73-year-old South Dakota man accused of fatally shooting his long-ago classmate will plead guilty but mentally ill to a second-degree murder charge, his attorney said Tuesday. Defense attorney Scott Bratland said during a pretrial motions hearing in Madison that Carl Ericsson has been examined by a psychiatrist but that an affidavit has not been ...
By Jeff Horseman The Press Enterprise RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Riverside County supervisors are being asked to OK development of new zoning rules for parolee/probationer homes — less than two years after banning them in unincorporated areas. The Board of Supervisors will take up the request from county staff at its meeting at 9 a.m. today at the County Administrative Center, 4080 Lemon St., Riverside ...
By Matt Gouras Associated Press HELENA, Mont. — The only Canadian on death row in the United States is asking the Montana Parole Board to instead let him live the rest of his life in prison. Ronald A. Smith of Red Deer, Alberta, was sentenced to death in 1983, seven months after he marched cousins Harvey Mad Man, 23, and Thomas Running Rabbit, 20, into the woods just off U.S. 2 near Marias Pass ...
By Errin Haines Associated Press ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has signed legislation that will overhaul the state's criminal justice system to provide alternative sentences for nonviolent offenders and reduce soaring prison costs. Faced with budget pressures, Deal and other law-and-order Republican governors have been pushing to overhaul years of policies that were designed to lock up ...
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