• Drug War Chronicle, Issue #1032 -- 8/16/18 -- Table of Contents with LI

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    Drug War Chronicle, Issue #1032 -- 8/16/18
    Phillip S. Smith, Editor,psmith@drcnet.org https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/1032

    A Publication of StoptheDrugWar.org
    David Borden, Executive Director,borden@drcnet.org
    "Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"

    Table of Contents:

    1. SAYING GOODBYE TO MR. METHADONE: DR. BOB NEWMAN DEAD AT AGE 80
    They called him "Mr. Methadone" for a reason. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/15/bob_newman

    2. HORRIBLE WISCONSIN "COCAINE MOM" LAW COULD FINALLY BE REPEALED
    Advocates are hoping a campaign aimed at changing public opinion can do what the courts have so far failed to do: kill the law.
    https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/08/wisconsin_cocaine_mom_law

    3. THIS SURPRISING STATE COULD BE THE NEXT TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA [FEATURE] Hint: It's located between Canada and South Dakota. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/14/surprising_next_legalization_possibility

    4. PSYCHEDELICS ARE SHOWING REAL PROMISE FOR TREATING MENTAL DISORDERS
    These powerful substances are making their way into the heart of the psychology establishment and starting to be understood as powerful therapeutic tools.
    https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/14/psychedelics_treatment

    5. DOES MICRODOSING PSYCHEDELICS REALLY IMPROVE YOUR LIFE?
    Some groundbreaking research begins to look for answers. https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/06/does_microdosing_psychedelics

    6. MEDICAL MARIJUANA UPDATE
    A new bill in Guam would allow home cultivation, Oklahoma officials still have issues with the voter-approved medical marijuana initiative, and more.
    https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/15/medical_marijuana_update

    7. THIS WEEK'S CORRUPT COPS STORIES
    A Mississippi sheriff is in a heap of trouble, a Mississippi prison guard gets caught with contraband.
    https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/15/weeks_corrupt_cops_stories

    8. CHRONICLE AM: NORWAY HEROIN-ASSISTED TREATMENT PLAN, NJ POL SAYS MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION "SOON," MORE... (8/10/18)
    New Jersey's Senate president says marijuana legalization is coming "soon," the Norwegians begin moving toward heroin-assisted treatment, and more.
    https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/10/chronicle_am_norway

    9. CHRONICLE AM: ND MJ INIT MAKES NOVEMBER BALLOT, COLOMBIA TO FORCIBLY UPROOT COCA, MORE... (8/13/18)
    North Dakota becomes the second state (after Michigan) to qualify a marijuana legalization initiative this year, Denver's mayor comes around on legalization, the UN will review marijuana's status under international law, and more.
    https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/13/chronicle_am_nd_mj_init_makes

    10. CHRONICLE AM: MPP GETS NEW DIRECTOR, ONTARIO POT SHOPS TO BE PRIVATE NOT STATE-RUN, MORE... (8/14/18)
    The Marijuana Policy Project picks a veteran criminal justice advocate as its new head, Canada's most populous province makes a last-minute switch from state-run to privately-run pot shops, and more.
    https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/14/chronicle_am_mpp_gets_new

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    1. SAYING GOODBYE TO MR. METHADONE: DR. BOB NEWMAN DEAD AT AGE 80 https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/aug/15/bob_newman

    Dr. Robert Newman died earlier this month after being struck by an automobile earlier this summer. He was 80 years old.

    If any one man can be credited with carving out a space for the use of methadone as a treatment for heroin addiction, he is that man. Working as a New York City public health doctor in the 1960s, he was given the task of ensuring that heroin addicts who
    wanted treatment could get treatment with methadone. His boss, city health department head Gordon Chase, told him he would be known as "Mr. Methadone."

    While he did not achieve the goal of providing treatment to everyone who wanted it, Newman oversaw the rapid expansion of the city's fledgling methadone program in the early 1970s. The number of patients on methadone went from a handful to more than 10,
    000 in two years, and 35,000 by 1975.

    And he stood up for those patients. When the NYPD wanted Newman to turn over patients' methadone records, he refused. Instead, he took to the courts to defend his patients' right to privacy -- and he won.

    After that, he devoted his career to advocating for evidence-based treatment, traveling the country and the world and picking up a second moniker, "the methadone pope," as he advanced harm reduction ideas decades before they became popularized.

    He faced opposition from abstinence and 12-step proponents, as well as from elected officials like New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who in 1998 tried to shut down the city's methadone program on the moralistic grounds that it merely substituted one
    addiction for another. The diplomatic Newman didn't challenge Giuliani head on but instead used interviews to make his case that methadone treatment allowed addicts to lead productive lives.

    Newman also advocated for a humane approach toward addicted mothers and pregnant women, supporting groups such as National Advocates for Pregnant Women in their fight against the demonization and criminalization of those women. He was a drug policy
    reformer who served for decades on the board of the Drug Policy Foundation and then its successor the Drug Policy Alliance (http://www.drugpolicy.org).

    As this century's opioid epidemic deepened, Newman was cautiously optimistic that the work he had begun decades earlier would help further destigmatize addiction. "I'm hoping that pragmatism will win out," he said. "As more and more Congresspeople,
    people in the general community and physicians have children who develop a problem with prescription drug use and can't get treatment for it, I think it will make people more receptive to opening doors to treatment."

    Newman was not only an influential physician in addiction issues, he was a giant in the hospital world as a whole. He served as President of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, and then of the entity that acquired Beth Israel along with other
    facilities -- and then of the entity that acquired that entity. But one could still talk him at a drug policy conference, or send him an email, and you'd get an email back.

    Dr. Robert Newman's contribution to an enlightened approach to addiction cannot be overstated. He will be missed, but his legacy lives on.

    (Read Bob Newman's 1998 interview with this newsletter here (https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/051/newman.shtml).)



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