NEWSBRIEFS	TABLE OF CONTENTS September-October 1997
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• MEXICO
  • Mexico Cooperating in Anti-Drug Effort, New Drug Detection Devices to Be Used on Border, ONDCP Reports to Congress
  • U.S. House Again Votes to Put 10,000 Anti-Drug Troops on U.S.-Mexico Border
  • U.S. Anti-Drug Agents to Carry Weapons in Mexico
  • Congressman Says Mexican Drug Cartels Hiring Ex-Green Berets
  • 18 U.S.-Trained Mexican Pilots Arrested for Cocaine Smuggling
     
• PRISONS
  • 5.5 Million U.S. Adults Under Correctional Supervision
  • Half of Young Black Men in Nation's Capital In or Being Pursued by Criminal Justice System
  • Inmates in Nation's Largest Prison for Women Shooting Heroin with Potentially Tainted Needles
     
• DRUG USE TRENDS
  • Teenagers Who Feel Loved and Understood Engage in Less Risky Behavior, Says NIH Study
  • Slow Development in "Crack Babies" May Be Caused by Conditions of Urban Poverty, Says New Study
  • DOJ Says 14% of Violence-Related Injuries Treated in Emergency Rooms Related to Drugs and Alcohol -- Only 1% Drugs
     
• NETWORK NEWS
  • Soros Donates $1 Million for Needle Exchanges, $15 Million for Drug Policy Reform, and $25 Million for Programs in Baltimore
  • New Group Proposes Moderate Drug Policy Course
  • Three Drug Policy Reform Advocates Looking for Higher Political Office
  • Two National Officials Who Advocated Drug Policy Reform Pass Away
     
• HARM REDUCTION
  • Opposing Bills on Funding of Needle Exchanges Pending in Congress
  • Needle Exchange Advocates Rally at HHS
  • Oppose Needle Exchange Says Family Research Council; Supporters Respond at Dueling Press Conferences
  • Dutch Pastor Forces Government to Provide Heroin to Addicts; Had Offered to Sell Discount Heroin at Church
     
• MARIJUANA
  • British Newspaper, the Independent on Sunday, Calls for Marijuana Decriminalization
  • Oregon Petitioners Offer Double the Needed Signatures to Put Marijuana Recriminalization Law on 1998 Ballot
  • Second Endogenous Substance Similar to THC Found
  • Challenger of Canadian Marijuana Law Sentenced to Three Years Probation, Fined $750
     
• MEDICAL MARIJUANA
  • Medical Marijuana Research Bill in California Endorsed by Attorney General Dan Lungren, Fails to Pass State Assembly
  • Mistrial in First Post-Prop. 215 Medical Marijuana Defense in California
  • Medical Marijuana Advocates March 210 Miles to Wisconsin State Capitol
     
• LAW ENFORCEMENT
  • FBI Director Advocates Encryption Regulation to Counter Drug Conspiracies
  • FBI Proposes to Modify Nation's Phone Network to Advance Wiretapping
  • Using Drug-Sniffing Dogs Without a Warrant Is Generally Illegal, Says Oregon Appeals Court
  • California Court OKs Police Manufacture of Rock Cocaine
     
• SENTENCING
  • Michigan Considers Reform of Mandatory Minimums
  • Federal Judges Call Mandatory Minimums a Failure
     
• MEDIA
  • William Bennett and Mario Cuomo to Co-Chair Partnership for a Drug-Free America; PDFA Seeks $175 Million From Taxpayers
  • News Media Misrepresent Deaths Caused by Illicit Drugs, Tobacco
     
• FORFEITURE
  • Louisiana Reforms Its Asset Forfeiture Laws
     
• TREATMENT
  • Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Insurance Bill Introduced in Congress
  • UN Testing New Opiate Addiction Treatment Developed by Vietnamese Doctor
     
• UNITED KINGDOM
  • British Foreign Secretary Condemns Burma for Role in Drug Trade
  • Parents "Cure" Addicted Son with Persian Gulf Vacation and Threat of Death
     
• ALCOHOL
  • Physician Advice Reduces Alcohol Consumption, Says New Study
  • Texas Panhandle Embraces Alcohol Prohibition
     
• IN THE COURTS
  • Arizona Mother Charged with Murder of Newborn; Breast Milk Allegedly Tainted with Heroin and Methadone
     
• STATE LAWS
  • New Jersey Governor Whitman Signs Laws Increasing Drug Penalties