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  • Community plays a role in helping ex-prisoners

    Communities nationwide, including in Wisconsin, work to help ex-prisoners by surrounding them with supportive people. But in Vermont, a statewide network funded by the DOC makes it happen.

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  • How One City Is Working To Get An Overdose Antidote In Every Home

    To combat its heroin and prescription drug epidemic, the city of Baltimore is trying to make sure everyone has access to naloxone, a drug that instantly stops overdoses.

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  • Once unthinkable in US, drug shoot-up rooms get serious look

    Supervised injection sites--places for addicts to use heroin under medical supervision with clean needles--have been established in Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands. While people commonly overdose at supervised sites, medical staff are able to intervene and prevent death.

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  • Brooklyn's New Approach to Youth Crimes

    New Brooklyn Young Adult Court aims to keep youths out of a lifetime of crime.

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  • Ceasefire in the City? How Police Can (and Cannot) Deter Gunfire

    In poor, crime-infected neighborhood with limited opportunities, where interactions with law enforcement are often toxic and punitive, and distrust on both sides is rampant. An integrated strategy is at the core of the model that can change this:"Operation Ceasefire," a form of targeted deterrence. The carrot-stick approach is carefully designed to reach men believed to be on the cusp of committing gun violence, let them know the consequences and help them fulfill their needs, thus finding a way to maybe change their trajectory into something more positive.

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  • Osseo schools head off misbehavior before it starts

    Schools in one Minnesota district are using tactics like yoga breaks, school mottoes and rewards to combat behavioral issues.

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  • The Shelter that Gives Wine to Alcoholics

    Alcoholism affects homeless people around the world, a condition that makes them physically and mentally dependent on alcohol to maintain stable functions. The Oaks shelter in Ottawa serves free daily pours to severe alcoholics in order to stabilize their physical and mental states, and to help them control the amount of alcohol they intake. These measures in Ottawa have proven cost effective, humane, and offer specialized aid to those suffering from alcoholism.

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  • Should We Give Homeless People Homes?

    The city of Medicine Hat in Canada ended homelessness by giving every person living in the streets a home. The Inquiry looks into whether this "Housing First" approach could work in other cities.

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  • Vancouver Prescriptions for Addicts Gain Attention as Heroin and Opioid Use Rises

    North America is suffering an epidemic of illicit heroin use and fatal overdoses of legal painkillers which fill up courts, jails and hospitals. In Vancouver, Crosstown Clinic is a heroin maintenance clinic that is keeping addicts out of jail and emergency rooms by injecting them the active ingredient in heroin 3 times a day.

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  • A Hunger to Live: The Struggle to Interrupt the Cycle of Violence

    After going to prison themselves, John Knight of Jackson and Shanduke McPhatter of Brooklyn are living straight and determined to make changes. They work as "violence interrupters" in their neighborhoods, using an approach called "Cure Violence," developed by Dr. Gary Slutkin. They mentor other young, at-risk men and encourage them towards graduating high school, community service, staying away from drugs, and pursuing honest work.

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