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(The Center Square) – A legislative hearing Thursday addressed the financial and administrative obstacles facing substance use disorder treatment providers in Illinois. The Illinois Senate and ...
In Europe as of 2007, Sweden spends the second highest percentage of GDP, after the Netherlands, on drug control. [12] The UNODC argues that when Sweden reduced spending on education and rehabilitation in the 1990s in a context of higher youth unemployment and declining GDP growth, illicit drug use rose [13] but restoring expenditure from 2002 again sharply decreased drug use as student ...
The Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, commonly known as the SAFE-T Act, is a state of Illinois statute enacted in 2021 that makes a number of reforms to the criminal justice system, affecting policing, pretrial detention and bail, sentencing, and corrections.
[24] [25] [26] Recreational-use revenue in Illinois is expected to reach an estimated $1.6 billion a year. [27] Illinois became the first state in the nation to legalize cannabis for recreational sale through a state legislature rather than ballot initiative. [28] Overall, Illinois is the 11th state in the US to allow recreational marijuana. [29]
The Illinois Hemp Business Association said the agriculture rule would refuel the war on drugs by expanding law enforcement authority for stops, searches and drug arrests related to the purchase ...
The U.S Government see the policy as a "third way" approach to drug control one that is based on the results of a huge investment in research from some of the world's preeminent scholars on disease of substance abuse. The policy does not see drug legalization as the "silver bullet" solution to drug control.
The Methamphetamine Precursor Control Act (MPCA, 720 ILCS 648) is an Illinois state law that was signed into law on November 16, 2005, and took effect on January 15, 2006. [1] The MPCA is an act used to create significant barriers such as the requirement to present ID to purchase cold medication that contains pseudoephedrine (Sudafed, Tylenol ...
Prescription drug monitoring programs, or PDMPs, are an example of one initiative proposed to alleviate effects of the opioid crisis. [1] The programs are designed to restrict prescription drug abuse by limiting a patient's ability to obtain similar prescriptions from multiple providers (i.e. “doctor shopping”) and reducing diversion of controlled substances.