Police Story, Part Two
How do you find room for new attitudes when the old ones are still omnipresent in the background?
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by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 13, 2020 | In the News, Public Policy | 0 |
How do you find room for new attitudes when the old ones are still omnipresent in the background?
by C. Scott McMillin | Aug 10, 2020 | In the News, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 29, 2020 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | May 4, 2020 | Addictive Substances | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 27, 2020 | Public Policy | 1 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 20, 2020 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 25, 2019 | Public Policy, Treatment | 0 |
Those of us who work in treatment quickly sense a problem: people with addictions aren’t likely to respond to this approach.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 26, 2018 | Public Policy | 0 |
…as one judge told me at a conference: “no matter how many jails you build, judges will fill them. It’s the easiest way to make this someone else’s problem, instead of ours.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 19, 2018 | Prevention, Public Policy | 0 |
The theory is that the more users we put in jail or prison, the fewer left out on the street. So why hasn’t that substantially reduced arrest and overdose statistics?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 26, 2018 | Public Policy | 0 |
Many of those programs treat opioid users without relying on medication, and yet manage to achieve remarkable success rates– sometimes 80% over a five year period.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 18, 2017 | Public Policy | 0 |
In many communities, the push to get the drinker or user “off the street” has turned the jail into an unwilling detox facility.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 6, 2017 | Addiction, Public Policy | 1 |
…healthcare advocates have to work extra hard while proponents of a more punitive approach simply point to a crime committed by a drug user…
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 28, 2017 | Public Policy | 0 |
It helps to remember that when it comes to crime, drugs and alcohol play a dual role.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 2, 2017 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
I suspect that the methodology for measuring success was far too narrow. Focused entirely on crime, they missed a host of other gains from participation in treatment.
Read Moreby Miller VanFossen | Jun 27, 2016 | Addiction Clinicians, Bookshelf | 0 |
Be sure to tell them to focus more on the positive things their loved one is doing versus what s/he has done wrong in the past.
Read Moreby Marisa Feil | Dec 1, 2014 | People in Recovery | 0 |
Closure is a great aid to the process of recovery, as it allows you to shut the door to that part of your life and move forward to newer, better things.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 8, 2014 | Public Policy | 1 |
A first offense can actually represent the product of a longstanding, well-established pattern of behavior.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 19, 2012 | Addiction Clinicians, PDF Articles | 0 |
A big fine, for instance, isn’t necessarily a better deterrent than a lesser one that is administered quickly and effectively.
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