President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of people who were convicted of use and simple possession of marijuana on federal lands and in the District of Columbia and granting clemency to 11... Read more »
Executive Summary: The Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) has recently proposed a potentially costly rule requiring repair stations located outside the United States to implement programs for drug and alcohol testing of employees who... Read more »
Oregon jails that house people awaiting trial on misdemeanor or serious felony charges, sometimes for months or longer, do not have consistent drug addiction programs, Ben Botkin reports for the Oregon Capitol... Read more »
A November report from the New York State Inspector General found that defects in both the manufacturing and administration of drug tests used by the New York State Department of Corrections and... Read more »
The federal trial of Carlos Orense Azocar (Orense) began this week, where he faces accusations of shipping tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States with suspected ties between Venezuelan... Read more »
Drug overdoses are killing young Americans in unprecedented numbers, with the monthly total rising from 31 in July 2019 to 87 in May 2021, the period with the most recent data, Ty... Read more »
Police dogs do more than protect and serve. They also function as brand ambassadors but a 2023 K9 photo contest designed to do just that backfired when participating law enforcement agencies started... Read more »
The US Supreme Court kicked off its Fall 2023 term Monday by hearing oral arguments in a statutory interpretation case examining federal sentencing laws. The issue before the court in Pulsifer v.... Read more »
Rudolph “King Rudy” Acosta III, a Chicago-area drug dealer who face a recommended life sentence for “off the charts” levels of drug trafficking in Illinois, was granted a time-served sentence on Tuesday... Read more »
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 On August 30, an official at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released one of the most significant announcements made at the federal level... Read more »