SIF Interview: UNODC’s Mr Leik Boonwaat in Singapore – Mr Leik Boonwaat, a representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to Laos, shares his team’s learning points from their study visit to Singapore. Mr Boonwaat projects include implementing intervention and education to prevent drug use, and providing drug rehabilitation services in Laos.

 

Sunday Dialogue: How We Punish Crime

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As a judge in Criminal Court, I found that psychiatric intervention, drug treatment and other behavior modification programs and use of mandated community service were often more effective in rehabilitating an offender while conferring a public benefit.
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Effort widens to clean up drug waste, trash in Santa Cruz

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of a drug related crime, they typically are connected with drug rehabilitation services. However, court records show many people don't complete rehab or are not ready to kick drugs. "There is a displacement effect with enforcement," Friend said.
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HHS rules will expand drug coverage for millions

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But the Affordable Care Act requires that Washington establish a baseline for minimum coverage, and HHS said last December that it would include inpatient and outpatient care, emergency services, maternity and childhood care, prescription drugs …
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