Cleaning the ‘Polluted Pond’
By Jeffrey L Reynolds, Ph.D At a recent meeting of the Suffolk Heroin & Opiate Advisory Panel where we were discussing discussing environmental strategies for addressing underage drinking and substance abuse, HUGS Executive Director Kym Laube made a poignant comment. She said something along the lines of this:... Read more »
August 23, 2010 eNewsletter
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Really? This is the best we can do?
By Jeffrey L Reynolds, Ph.D President Barack Obama recently signed the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, reducing the disparities between the minimum criminal penalties for possession of crack and those for powdered cocaine. The bill had broad bi-partisan Congressional support and shifted the egregious "100-to-1" ratio between crack and powder cocaine into... Read more »
August 16, 2010 eNewsletter
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Suffolk County Heroin/Opiate Advisory Panel
LICADD Executive Director Dr. Jeffrey Reynolds has been appointed Chair of the new Suffolk County Heroin/Opiate Advisory Panel by Suffolk Legislator Kate Browning. The group - comprised of prevention, treatment and recovery professionals - meets next on Friday, August 13th at 10:00AM at the Suffolk County Legislature. Legislator Lynne Nowick's press... Read more »
Dabbling in Disclosure
By Jeffrey L. Reynolds, Ph.D LICADD, by law and by ethic, has always steered clear of electoral politics. Still, the public disclosures of past drug use by candidates for NYS Attorney General are worthy of some discussion. Not because some of them smoked pot or used coke twenty years ago, but... Read more »
August 9, 2010 Newsletter
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LICADD Presents One-Day Anger Management Workshop on August 28, 2010
LICADD Presents One-Day Anger Management Workshop on August 28, 2010 Helping Long Island Families Create Healthy Relationship and Safe Homes August 9, 2010-The Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (LICADD) announced that it will hold its next fast-track, one-day Anger Management workshop on Saturday, August 28, 2010 in Ronkonkoma.... Read more »
August 2, 2010 eNewsletter
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