Hawai‘i Public Radio

Big Island Drug Court offers culture-based solutions to racial disparities

Across the country, white participants of drug treatment courts commonly have better outcomes compared to participants of ...
The New York Times

Desperate for Drug Treatment

Readers respond to Nicholas Kristof’s column about his friend’s struggle with addiction. To the Editor: Re “The Prison Sentence That Saved My Friend’s Life,” by Nicholas Kristof (column, Feb. 9): My ...
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Addressing Drug Use, Increasing Treatment of Drug Use Disorders and Preventing HIV/Aids

In the region, the definition of “high-risk drug use”/“problem drug use” is limited to “current injecting drug use” due to ...
Santa Clara University

The Disparate Treatment of Crack Cocaine and the Opioid Epidemic

Ranee Sanford ‘23 graduated from Santa Clara University with a major in political science and minor in economics. Sanford was a 2022-23 Government Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied ...
The New York Times

They Entered Treatment. Drugs, Overdoses and Deaths Followed.

Baltimore addiction programs draw patients with free housing while collecting millions. Some say one company offered little help. Amanda Vlakos was found dead of an overdose in September while ...