by Tim Townsend and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Oct 12, 2010 | News
TRENTON, Ill. (RNS) On a recent autumn night, about 100 people gathered in the parking lot of Grace Community Baptist Church here, listening to the Rev. Sam Childers talk about heroin addiction, biker gangs and African warlords. Mostly, though, the man who calls... by Daniel Burke | Aug 27, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) A coalition of mostly conservative religious organizations is urging Congress to amend a proposed bill that would bar them from making personnel decisions based on religion if they receive government funds to treat mental illness and substance abuse.... by Robert Parham | May 31, 2006 | Opinion
Today is my last day on drugs. Tomorrow is my first day off of acute leukemia medication in 15 months. No more monthly trips to see my dealer at the Vanderbilt Medical Center pharmacy. No more pills—pills priced at $4,500 per month for 240 tablets taken at a clip of... by Steve Sumerel | Mar 8, 2002 | Opinion
On the street it’s called pot, grass, weed, mary jane or reefer. It comes in cigarette and cigar-sized packages called joints and blunts. The active ingredient is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. Call it what you will, but those who produce marijuana call... by Sarah Griffith | Jul 18, 2000 | News
Black men and women are imprisoned for drug offenses twice as often as white drug users, though there are five times more white users than black users, according to a recent report. Of drug offenders sent to prison in 1996, 62.7 percent were African-American and 36.7...
