Agenda for 11/19 - Gold

1. Glamour Magazine names transgender Orono student as one of its 50 Inspiring Women for 2014.

2. Portugal's Drug Decriminalization program

3. Are drugs a health or criminal issue?

• Needle exchange programs
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• Methadone clinics
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• Drug "Safe House"
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4. Incarceration for Drugs - America has 5% of the world's population, 25% of it's prisoners.

5. Despite the arrests - 76.9 percent of drug offenders are rearrested for another drug offense.

6. How effective has America's "War on Drugs" been?

7. Who has an incentive to continue these drug war policies?

8. Why do politicians support these policies?

9. Next on Sociology - "The House I Live In"

(US Drug Prisoners) "The United States leads the world in the number of people incarcerated in federal and state correctional facilities. There are currently more than 2 million people in American prisons or jails. Approximately one-quarter of those people held in U.S. prisons or jails have been convicted of a drug offense. The United States incarcerates more people for drug offenses than any other country. With an estimated 6.8 million Americans struggling with drug abuse or dependence, the growth of the prison population continues to be driven largely by incarceration for drug offenses. - See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.ArVLEO8P.dpuf

(US Drug Prisoners) "The United States leads the world in the number of people incarcerated in federal and state correctional facilities. There are currently more than 2 million people in American prisons or jails. Approximately one-quarter of those people held in U.S. prisons or jails have been convicted of a drug offense. The United States incarcerates more people for drug offenses than any other country. With an estimated 6.8 million Americans struggling with drug abuse or dependence, the growth of the prison population continues to be driven largely by incarceration for drug offenses."

Source: 

Justice Policy Institute, "Substance Abuse Treatment and Public Safety," (Washington, DC: January 2008), p. 1.
http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08_01_REP_DrugTx_AC-PS.pdf

(Estimated Drug Use by Prisoners in 2004) "17% of State and 18% of Federal prisoners committed their crime to obtain money for drugs."

- See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.ArVLEO8P.dpu

(US Drug Prisoners) "The United States leads the world in the number of people incarcerated in federal and state correctional facilities. There are currently more than 2 million people in American prisons or jails. Approximately one-quarter of those people held in U.S. prisons or jails have been convicted of a drug offense. The United States incarcerates more people for drug offenses than any other country. With an estimated 6.8 million Americans struggling with drug abuse or dependence, the growth of the prison population continues to be driven largely by incarceration for drug offenses."

Source: 

Justice Policy Institute, "Substance Abuse Treatment and Public Safety," (Washington, DC: January 2008), p. 1.
http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08_01_REP_DrugTx_AC-PS.pdf

(Estimated Drug Use by Prisoners in 2004) "17% of State and 18% of Federal prisoners committed their crime to obtain money for drugs."

Source: 

Mumola, Christopher J., and Karberg, Jennifer C., "Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004," (Washington, DC: US Dept. of Justice, Oct. 2006) (NCJ213530), p. 1.
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/dudsfp04.pdf

- See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.ArVLEO8P.dpuf

(US Drug Prisoners) "The United States leads the world in the number of people incarcerated in federal and state correctional facilities. There are currently more than 2 million people in American prisons or jails. Approximately one-quarter of those people held in U.S. prisons or jails have been convicted of a drug offense. The United States incarcerates more people for drug offenses than any other country. With an estimated 6.8 million Americans struggling with drug abuse or dependence, the growth of the prison population continues to be driven largely by incarceration for drug offenses."

Source: 

Justice Policy Institute, "Substance Abuse Treatment and Public Safety," (Washington, DC: January 2008), p. 1.
http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08_01_REP_DrugTx_AC-PS.pdf

(Estimated Drug Use by Prisoners in 2004) "17% of State and 18% of Federal prisoners committed their crime to obtain money for drugs."

Source: 

Mumola, Christopher J., and Karberg, Jennifer C., "Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004," (Washington, DC: US Dept. of Justice, Oct. 2006) (NCJ213530), p. 1.
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/dudsfp04.pdf

- See more at: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.ArVLEO8P.dpuf