Florida needs to cut costs, cut crime | June 16, editorial Address drug and alcohol abuse Unfortunately, most assessments by major publications and editorials concerning the failings of the prison ...

Such efforts may not be enough. So far, most Democrats show no signs of addressing one of the most robustly documented, and worsening, contributors to crime: drugs and alcohol.

Fentanyl Use Fentanyl is a powerful opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin, and is a major contributor to accidental drug overdose deaths in Texas. It belongs to a class of drugs call opioids that ...

Historically, alcohol has been more consistently associated with violence than any other drug, factoring into 19-37% of violent crimes between 1997 and 2008, according to the Bureau of Justice ...

Drug and alcohol abuse form the foundation for most all crimes committed, law enforcement officials say, so the chances of ever winning the war on drugs are slim to none.

In a study published by Alcohol Focus Scotland in 2021, 41% of prisoners said that they were drunk at the time of their crime. This figure rose to 60% for young offenders.

Writing in American Law and Economics Review, Harvard Professor of Economics Jeffrey Miron argues that “drug and alcohol prohibition have substantially raised the homicide rate in the U.S. over ...

"When I look at crime trends I tend to think they're driven by forces outside government control," he said. Tuttle pointed to declining abuse of guns, drugs, and alcohol as more significant ...

Trump vows tariffs over immigration. What the numbers say about border crossings, drugs and crime This year, the number of people crossing the border without documents has actually been falling.

IN an important paper on the problem of alcohol and drug addiction in relation to crime, published in the October issue of the British Journal of Inebriety, Dr. W. Norwood East, formerly H.M ...