Washington State 911 Good Samaritan Law

Published February 25, 2013

Washington State 911 Good Samaritan Law – Seattle Police Department training video about Washington state’s 911 Good Samaritan Law, Naloxone distribution, and StopOverdose.org website. Posted by the University of Washington Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, April 2012.

Winding down the war on drugs

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Broadsterdam of 2013, and many places like it in America and Europe, would have been unimaginable in New York in 1961, when diplomats hammered out the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which aimed to counter the “serious evil” of addiction. That …
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Rick Steves pushes his love of travel at benefits for KCLU radio station

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He has worked for the legalization of marijuana in the United States and said he was pleased when both his home state of Washington and Colorado voted to legalize it. “It's not that I'm interested in more people getting high. In Europe, they talk about …
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Drug testing for welfare less appealing than it sounds

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Legislatures across the country are considering drug screening policies for people receiving state assistance, and a handful of states have enacted such laws. But based on the experience of the early adopters, caution is advised. … Nearly one-in-five …
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