Little over thirty years ago Governor Nelson Rockefeller and the New York State legislature created the toughest drug laws in the nation. Their aim was to curb the drug epidemic, capture drug kingpins ...

It was an unanticipated consequence of the war in Vietnam--young soldiers finding relief from the horrors of combat with stimulants and sedatives. The Pentagon reported in 1973 that one in five U.S.

Last January John Davison Rockefeller Jr. reached the age of 65 and last fortnight he announced that, according to regulations, he had retired from the Rockefeller General Education Board, and would ...

Elaine Bartlett was a 26-year-old mother of four living in East Harlem when she was sentenced to 20-to-life for selling four ounces of cocaine to an informant. It was her first offense; the same ...

Three winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine were announced in Stockholm, Sweden on Oct. 9. Prize winners Arvid Carlsson, ...

The opioid epidemic is a nightmare. Revisiting draconian drug sentencing laws will make it worse. By Maia Szalavitz Readers criticize the ruling and worry about “a slippery slope.” Also: Care, not ...