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Category: Drugs and Crime
Can Weight Loss Drugs Reduce Violent Crime?
Highlights Are weight loss drugs affecting criminal activity? There’s data suggesting that it does. There seems to be a wide array of new observations beyond…
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Good News For Youth Substance Abuse And Mental Health—Why That Matters for Crime
Highlights Compared with just a few years ago, fewer teenagers are: Drinking alcohol. Binge drinking. Smoking cigarettes. Vaping nicotine. Using marijuana. Beginning to use alcohol…
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Many Criminal Offenders Do Not Want Drug Treatment
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube podcast. Examples from California, Oregon, and other areas indicate that many (most?) drug offenders do not want…
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Do We Know Why Crime Is Declining?
Highlights This article is available as a YouTube video. Example: L.A. sees lowest homicide rate in decades — but why killings are down is up for…
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Is A Record Low In Alcohol Use Connected To Violence Reductions?
Highlights This article is available as a podcast on YouTube. Could a record low in alcohol use be contributing to crime reductions? Alcohol use is…
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Recent Crime-Police-Justice YouTube Podcasts From CrimeInAmerica.Net
Highlights Podcasts from CrimeInAmerica.Net are meant to supplement articles and act as a service to readers. CrimeInAmericaNet is a 15-year-old website covering crime, policing, true…
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Is Policing The Toughest Job In America?
Highlights Americans have considerable mental health and substance problems plus an inability to behave well per data. These issues have implications for police-civilian encounters. About…
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Parole And Probation: Dangers, Realities, and the Need for Change
Highlights There’s no national consensus as to what we want from parole and probation employees or agencies. Parole and probation agents supervise and…
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What Causes Murders And Aggravated Assaults?
Highlights An overview of the circumstances of homicides and aggravated assaults. Per assaults on law enforcement, there were close to 20,000 aggravated assaults. There were…
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Adults Reporting Mental Illness And Substance Abuse Were Far More Likely To Be Arrested
Highlights Data from Pew is combined with previous research indicating the complexity of mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorders in the justice system and…
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Fentanyl Facts: It’s The Leading Cause Of Death For Americans Ages 18 To 49
Highlights The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), is gearing up for National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week 2023 to be held March 20-26. 81,230 drug…
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Employment And Crime-Do Jobs Prevent Or Deter Incarcerations?
HighlightsMost offenders were employed before their latest incarceration. ChatGPT (the new artificial intelligence website) offers the following, “Overall, employment can make a significant difference in…
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How Many People Are In Prison For Marijuana Possession?
Highlights “As of January 2022, no offenders sentenced solely for simple possession of marijuana remained in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.” State…
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Is Anyone Sober? Under The Influence During Criminal Arrests And Accidents
Highlights Data indicates that most people involved in serious accidents or those criminally arrested were under the influence of drugs or alcohol or have substances…
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Decriminalization-One Percent Of Drug Users Ask For Treatment-Overdose Deaths Soar
Highlights In Oregon, only 1 percent of people who received citations for possessing hard drugs asked for treatment. Half showed up for court. State health…
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Is There A Connection Between Employment And Housing And Crime?
Highlights A reader wants to know the percent of offenders employed and in housing before committing their crimes or after prison. Is there a connection…
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Coronavirus-Violence May Increase When Criminals Don’t Get Their Drugs
Highlights Most offenders are drug and alcohol dependant. Eighty percent of state inmates have considerable drug histories. Add mental health concerns, and we come to…
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Mental Illness, Mass Shootings And Everyday Crime
Highlights The vast majority of our discussions about crime, mass shootings, police encounters that go wrong, treatment failures and recidivism may be explained by the…
View More Mental Illness, Mass Shootings And Everyday CrimeBrain Injuries, Mental Health, PTSD and Substance Abuse Explain Criminal Behavior
Observations You can partially explain dysfunctional criminal behavior by looking at the data on traumatic brain injuries, mental health, PTSD and substance abuse. Author Leonard…
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