US Appeals Court Blocks Securus, Pay Tel Bids to Stall Prison Call …
Nov 21, 2024 · T he landmark Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations poised to bring down costs of phone and video calls for incarcerated people will move forward as planned, despite an onslaught of lawsuits and delay tactics from the corrections industry. The first of the new FCC caps will be enforced January 1, 2025. On November 18, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ...
Over 200,000 Arrests for Marijuana Possession in 2023, Per FBI Data
Sep 26, 2024 · H undreds of thousands of people are still being arrested for marijuana possession in the United States. New data are a stark reminder of how prohibition—despite the momentum for legalization, and preidential candidates seeming to endorse it—continues to …
Many People Left to Make Their Own Stimulant Pipes and Face
Sep 27, 2023 · A cross the globe, people who use stimulants have devised creative, sometimes ingenious, smoking tools. Often used to heat up and inhale crack cocaine or methamphetamine, these homemade implements are regularly made of whatever’s available—particularly in jurisdictions where access to new pipes and stems, such as …
Will Indonesia, a Key Tobacco Control Outlier, Keep Vaping Legal?
Nov 22, 2024 · I f Indonesia was already frowned upon by the World Health Organization (WHO) and tobacco control groups for its high and rising smoking rate, it sealed that outlier status in 2018. That’s when the country became one of the first in Asia, and in the Global South, to recognize vaping as a legitimate alternative to combustible tobacco.
How Tablets Changed Georgia Prisons, More Than GDC Intended
Nov 19, 2024 · I n 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) started rolling out the first JPay tablets. The JP5s look more or less like clunky versions of what people in the free world probably picture when they think of tablets, but any resemblance is superficial.
No Drug Education: The Rise and Fall of DARE - Filter
May 1, 2024 · P raised by politicians, parents and presidents, police officers taught DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) to fifth and sixth-grade students in around 75 percent of United States school districts at the peak of its popularity in the 1980s and ‘90s. Funded by the US government, the program was exported to dozens of other countries, too. . Altogether, DARE reached an estimated 50 million ...
FDA Reports Largest-Ever Seizure of Unregulated Nicotine Vapes
Oct 24, 2024 · O n October 22, the Food and Drug Administration announced what appears to be the United States government’s largest seizure of unregulated nicotine vapes to date, totaling an estimated 3 million individual products worth around $76 million. The joint operation with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was carried out in July, following the formation of a federal interdiction task force in June.
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Dec 19, 2024 · Filter's mission is to advocate through journalism for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy and human rights.
SAMHSA-Backed Toolkit Introduces Harm Reduction to Families, …
Oct 8, 2024 · T he National Family Support Technical Assistance Center (NFSTAC) has curated a “Family & Caregiver Toolkit,” aimed at those whose children (of any age) are impacted by issues related to mental health and/or substance use. Rolled out October 6, on the whole it does a decent job of explaining harm reduction to what it presumes is an abstinence-oriented audience.
Smoking in Prisons Has Changed. Why Are We Denied Lung …
Dec 20, 2023 · A talking point often circulated in harm reduction is that the moment someone is released from incarceration, their risk of dying from opioid-involved overdose goes up by an extremely large percentage. There’s a parallel phenomenon for tobacco-related deaths. Incarceration is associated with precipitously increased cancer risk, lung cancer in particular.