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...
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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.
Just as methamphetamine use in the United States spread west to east, there is fear in Mexico that meth consumption – known as tacha, cristal, piedra, ice, hielo, and glass – will spread from Baja California Norte, Sinaloa, and Michoacan to points west. Recently, public health authorities in Juárez, together with their counterparts in El Paso, launched the “Oscuridad de Cristal” (Darkness of Meth) campaign to warn students and others of the dangers of metamphetamines. While meth use and production has stabilized in the United States, the scourge of meth use and trafficking is spreading through Mexico. Tijuana has more than 100,000 meth users ...
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An excellent publication here on Switzerland's heroin experiment: It is abundantly clear that the US's "War on Drugs" has been a destructive, dismal and abject failure. To say it has backfired is an understatement and of course, the real losers are regularJoes trying to get by. Meanwhile hypocrite politicians and society's elite are snorting it up faster than the down-and-outs are inhaling crack and injecting filthy, badly cut heroine. The fact is, everyone knows how badly the War on Drugs has gone wrong, yet the US government won't hear a word said against it. For reasons that are frankly depressing, disturbing and a testament ...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Abt Associates has been awarded a $5.3 million, 3-year contract from the Executive Office of the President Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), to support the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM II) program. The ADAM II program is a unique research survey that collects and analyzes data on heavy drug users who are involved with the criminal justice system. The contract is a follow-on to...
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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