Tuesday, April 24, 2018, Opioid Addiction Strategies and Successes panel: Chatham Police Chief Peter Volkmann, Sullivan County Sheriff Michael Schiff, Supreme Court Justice Hon. Stephan Schick, Tom Rue of Choices Mental Health Counseling PLLC, Martin Colavito of Catholic Charities Community Services.
Report by Time-Warner Cable reporter Eva McKend, May 2014 on a spike on copper thefts in Monticello, New York, including a clip with Tom Rue of Choices Mental Health Counseling concerning the impact of opioid dependence in this crime trend. YNN TV.
What does it mean to be "mandated" to treatment? Is a court order truly equivalent to leading a horse to water? Maybe. But such mandates are as much a legal fiction as the metaphorical horse who can't be made to drink. In reality, mandates do not exist.
1/13/2009
A Mormon friend living in southern California, David Shaw, reminded me this morning, in the vein of "this date in history", that 40 years ago today on January 1, 1966 the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 went into effect. The new law required cigarette manufacturers to label their product with, "Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health."