“According the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), in 2016, over 11 million Americans misused prescription opioids, nearly 1 million used heroin, and 2.1 million had an opioid use disorder due to prescription opioids or heroin….Since 2000, more than 300,000 Americans have died of an
Recently I had the opportunity to re-visit the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington DC. The inscriptions on the wall reminded me of the power of this inspirational man and what I believe in, and strive for in my life: Justice For All. Justice for all. It is an easy phrase to espouse,
You’ve been robbed. Don’t reach for your wallet or your car keys; they are not missing. But all the information in your wallet and the information about how you finance your car has been stolen. The data breach — aka hack — of the credit agency Equifax resulted in millions of people’s personal information, including
All over the planet, a traffic crash is called an accident. It doesn’t matter if it is a vehicle hitting a tree without causing any injury, or a person getting injured, or worse case, someone dying in a crash; all of these collisions are routinely called accidents. However, with 94% of traffic crashes caused by
Every year at this time thousands of individuals make New Year’s resolutions to improve their lives and be a better person. Whether it is to lose weight, stop smoking or exercise more, we are setting goals to improve our lives. Yet, many people will ignore making the easiest life-saving changes for one of the most
The Board of Trustees of the International Society for Therapeutic Jurisprudence (ISTJ) has enthusiastically approved the creation of the “Peggy Hora/Michael Jones Award for Distinguished Judicial Service,” to be presented to “judges who are making outstanding contributions to the administration of justice in a therapeutic jurisprudence mode.” Currently Judge Hora (Ret.) is President and Co-Founder
You’re being followed. Everywhere you go and how long you stay is being tracked. It’s not paranoia, it’s reality and the spy is in your pocket. It’s your smartphone. Within every smartphone is a software that tracks you. All your data is transmitted, analyzed and exploited by Google, Apple and various apps companies. Deep within
The Nuts and Bolts of Drug Testing – Justice Speaks Podcast Part 3 This episode of Justice Speaks focuses on drug testing collection best practices; participant identification, collection site, specimen collection, witnessed collections and valid specimens.[1] Ensuring that the participant is the person providing the specimen is critical to proper collection. Courts and testing agencies
Two men carrying stolen pistols, Jesse Dismukes and David Holland, waited for the phone signal from gang leader Timothy Carpenter on Dec. 1, 2012. Carpenter sat in his Ford Explorer outside a Radio Shack on Gratiot Avenue in Detroit. When signaled, his accomplices pulled their guns, entered the store and forced everyone into a back
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