NEWSBRIEFS	TABLE OF CONTENTS October 1995
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• DRUG ENFORCEMENT WORKLOAD
  • National Assessment of Criminal Justice System Finds Drug Case Overload
     
• POLICE PRACTICES
  • Hundreds of Philadelphia Drug Convictions Poised to Be Overturned in Wake of Officers' Guilty Pleas
  • Santa Ana Police Discontinue Policy of Making Crack
  • Marijuana Kingpin Informer Gets 9 Years, Keeps Millions
     
• CHOCOLATE
  • Alcoholism Drug May Help Chocoholics
     
• COMMUNITY ANTI-DRUG EFFORTS
  • New Orleans Community Uses Voodoo to Chase Away Drug Dealers
     
• DRUG POLICY STUDIES
  • RAND Scholars Examine Clinton Strategy, Advocate Harm Reduction
     
• DRUG TESTING
  • Athletes Complain About "Knock and Pee" Program
     
• MILITARY
  • Marine Reservists Wage War on Marijuana Crops in Caribbean
     
• SENTENCING
  • Solvent Is Not LSD "Carrier Medium" For Sentencing Purposes
  • Judge Reviews Prosecutions and Finds No Discrimination
  • Senate Holds Hearings on Crack Cocaine Sentencing
  • American Bar Association Endorses Sentencing Commission's Crack Cocaine Guidelines Amendments
  • House Speaker Gingrich Proposes Increased Death Penalties for Drug Dealers
     
• TOBACCO
  • Clinton Approves Unprecedented Measures to Curb Youth Smoking
  • ABC TV Network Apologizes to Tobacco Companies For "Spike" Comment
     
• POLICY REFORM ACTIVISTS
  • Drug Policy Reformers Organize in Southeast Under Banner Called SHARC
  • Three Hemp Activists Acquitted of Marijuana Cultivation
     
• INTERNATIONAL
  • Drug Scandal Implicates Colombian President
  • Seventeen Aircraft Downed in Colombia and Peru Since Resumption of U.S. Intelligence
  • Vice President Gore Envisions Defeat of Colombian Cartels
     
• FORFEITURE
  • Sixth Circuit Joins Ninth in Civil Forfeiture Double Jeopardy Ruling
  • Ninth Circuit Makes Exception to "405" Ruling
     
• IN THE COURTS
  • Alaska Court Rejects DWI Double Jeopardy Argument
     
• PUBLIC FIGURES AND DRUGS
  • Dexter Manley Given 4-Year Sentence
  • Actor Carroll O'Connor Speaks Out About Drug Abuse
     
• WORKPLACE
  • Partnership For a Drug Free America Launches Small Business Campaign
  • New Workplace Drug Testing Manual Published
     
• TEENAGERS
  • Survey Finds Drugs #1 Concern
  • Shalala Knocks Marijuana Legalization, Cites Need to Protect the Kids
     
• AIDS/NEEDLE EXCHANGE
  • Swiss Legalization Experiment Praised, Attacked
     
• GUEST COLUMN
  • "Redefining the Goals of National Drug Policy: Recommendations from a Working Group," by Peter Reuter, PhD and Jonathan P. Caulkins, PhD