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Sentencing law repeal edges closer to governor's desk
Mandatory minimum sentencing, a divisive policy that for the past generation has imprisoned large numbers of urban minorities in New Jersey on drug-related charges, appears all but certain to be overturned by the time Gov. Jon Corzine leaves office early next year.

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Poll shows New Jersey with broad bi-partisan support for including addiction treatment in health ref
TRENTON … (September 23, 2009) – The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence-New Jersey (NCADD-NJ) today released the results of a local poll that shows broad support for increasing access to alcohol and drug addiction treatment.

Legislative district offices to be inundated with postcards
TRENTON … (June 10, 2009) – Thousands of postcards, many with personal appeals and signed by residents throughout New Jersey, will be hand-delivered to legislative district offices throughout New Jersey today as part of an effort to generate more revenue dedicated to treatment of addiction. The postcards, which are to be presented at the district offices by teams organized by National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence-New Jersey (NCADD-NJ), describe the cost in lives and dollars of untreated addiction and call for a five-cent-a-gallon increase in the beer tax to fund treatment.

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Before rejoicing at recovery, treatment must be available
This September marks the 20th National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. That spans a generation of celebrations of our fathers, mothers, sons, daughters and other loved ones being returned to us from the torments of addiction. Over the course of the past two decades, tens of thousands of New Jersey families have been made whole again through recovery.

Time to accept drug war as failed policy
It hardly comes as a revelation that the drug war, with its imprisonment of countless thousands of non-violent offenders, has been a fiasco. Nearly everyone versed with this issue, from the head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, on down, has pronounced the drug war an utterly misguided and wrong-headed policy, one that has done little but waste both lives and dollars.

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Hike in beer tax could aid addiction treatment
New Jersey is confronted with a disease that affects hundreds of thousands of its citizens.

Women, girls are drinking more than ever before
Over the last several decades, women have been drinking more and getting drunk more often.

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