NEWSBRIEFS	TABLE OF CONTENTS January 1998
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• PRISONS
  • Addiction Treatment in Prison Will Reduce Crime, Save Billions of Taxdollars, Says CASA Report
  • Clinton Offers Proposals to Cut Drug Use in Prisons
  • Jails and Prisons Offer Acupuncture Treatment for Drug Addicted Inmates
  • Canada Giving Methadone to Heroin-Addicted Prisoners
  • Despite Lesser Roles in Drug Crimes, Many Women Receive Longer Sentences Than Men, Children Victimized, Says Minneapolis Star Tribune Report
     
• MEDICAL MARIJUANA
  • California Medical Marijuana Clubs Illegal, Says Appeals Court; Feds File Civil Suit Against Six Clubs; Legal Defense Fund Organized
  • Ontario Judge Rules in Favor of Medical Marijuana; Health Canada Says It Will Approve Marijuana Prescriptions
  • Washington, DC Medical Marijuana Initiative Fails to Get Enough Signature; New Signature-Gathering Efforts Planned
  • Two Medical Marijuana Petitions Underway in Maine
  • DEA Raids Home of Medical Marijuana Writer
  • Oregon Health Center Legal Defense Fund
     
• INTERNATIONAL
  • British Minister's Son Arrested For Selling Marijuana in Newspaper Sting; U.K. Marijuana Decriminalization Debate Stimulated
  • Israeli Group Seeks Amnesty For Drug Prisoners
  • France Approves Medical Marijuana Experiment, Debates Marijuana Decriminalization
     
• DRUG USE TRENDS
  • Drug Use By Eighth-Graders Declining, Use by Older Teenagers Holding, Says Monitoring the Future Survey
  • Drug-Related Emergency Room Visits Dropped 6% in 1996, Reports DAWN Survey
  • Eastern European Illicit Drug Producers Using Blood to Test Their Product, Spreading HIV, Says U.N.
     
• NETWORK NEWS
  • Former "Drug Czar" Lee Brown Elected Mayor of Houston
     
• UPDATE
  • CIA Probe Finds No Evidence of Link Between Itself and Los Angeles Crack Trade
  • FBI Investigation of Hernandez Killing Completed; Case Forwarded to Civil Rights Investigators
     
• TREATMENT
  • Ease Restrictions on Methadone, Says NIH Panel
     
• SENTENCING
  • African-Americans In Alabama Disproportionately Arrested, Sentenced for Drug Crimes
  • Massachusetts Study Critical of Mandatory Minimum Sentencing: Black, Hispanic, Poor Defendants More Likely To Go To Prison
     
• ALCOHOL
  • Designated Driver Campaign Working, Says Inventor
  • DWI Laws Reducing Child Deaths, Says CDC
  • Drunken Driver, After 18th Conviction, Ordered To Move Within "Easy Walking Distance" of Liquor Store
  • Judge Sentences Teen Drunk Driver to Carry Picture of His Victims
     
• HARM REDUCTION
  • Montreal Needle Exchange Participant's HIV Sero-Conversion Rate Twice That of Non-Exchange Participants, Says St. Luc Hospital Study; Health Officers Say More Programs, Services Are Needed
  • Presidential AIDS Panel Criticizes Clinton for Failing to Fund Prevention Efforts, Including Needle Exchange
     
• TOBACCO
  • Teens With Tobacco Merchandise Are Four Times More Likely to Smoke, Says New Study
  • Smoking Disparity Between White and Black High School Girls
     
• MARIJUANA
  • Georgia State Senator Seized at Airport with Marijuana, Pays $500 Fine
  • Illinois Governor Pardons Teacher Fired for 23-Year-Old Marijuana Misdemeanor
     
• LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • FBI Investigates Indianapolis Police For Drug Theft
  • Police Going Back to High School to Make Undercover Drug Buys
  • Ohio Supreme Court Decision Expected to Reduce Police Use of Traffic Stops as Ploy for Drug Searches