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Scott Burns - Office of National Drug Control Policy
Scott Burns is Deputy Director for State and Local Affairs. According to whitehouse.gov: Most recently, Scott Burns served four elected terms as Iron County Attorney in Cedar City, Utah. He founded the Multi-County Narcotics Task Force... [more]
Scott Burns is Deputy Director for State and Local Affairs. According to whitehouse.gov: Most recently, Scott Burns served four elected terms as Iron County Attorney in Cedar City, Utah. He founded the Multi-County Narcotics Task Force and served as Chairman of the Southern Utah Law Enforcement Agencies Board. He was an Adjunct Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at Southern Utah University and an Instructor, as well as Member, of the Board of Directors for the Utah Police Academy. Scott is a graduate of Southern Utah University and received his J.D. from California Western School of Law.
1989 Dade Circuit Court, under county prosecutor Janet Reno, developed a community-based, treatment, rehabilitation, and supervision program for felony drug defendants to address rapidly increasing recidivism rates. By 2010 2,140 drug courts in operation with 284 in process of planning or development. Drug courts divert non-violent, substance-abusing offender from prison and jail into treatment. By ncreasing direct supervision of offenders...
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The president of a Bakersfield business is charged with furnishing methamphetamine to a 17-year-old girl who then passed out from an overdose and had to be taken to the hospital.
Kerry Hogeland, 53, the president of California Custom Laminate Inc. on Mount Vernon Avenue, was arrested Wednesday on charges of furnishing drugs to a minor, child endangerment, possession of a narcotic controlled...
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While alcohol is still Iowa’s No. 1 intoxicant, the two most abused illicit drugs in the Hawkeye State are marijuana and methamphetamine, according to a report released Monday by the Iowa Office of Drug Control Policy.
“Based on primary substance abuse treatment admission data from the Iowa Department of Public Health, alcohol accounts for about 61 [...]
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A new national media campaign aimed at preventing methamphetamine use and raising awareness about treatment and recovery has been launched by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)....
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Office of Drug Control Policy: New report cites Iowa's top drugs of abuse ...IowaPolitics.com (press release)Regulate Salvia divinorum by making it a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance, to protect Iowans from the potentially intense and debilitating effects of this ...and more »
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