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Reentry
Reentry is the moment the system claims success and reality says otherwise. The first weeks after release carry the highest overdose risk. These essays focus on the reentry window we keep wasting.
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Peer Recovery Groups for Young Adults Leaving Treatment or Justice Settings
Age-specialized peer recovery groups for young adults leaving treatment or justice settings: belonging, identity work, and guardrails beside clinical care.
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What Curriculum Can Halfway Houses Use for Reentry Programming?
ReturnPath halfway house curriculum: 16-week reentry with workbook accountability, rolling enrollment, and facilitator guides for transitional housing.
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Drug Legalization and Recidivism: What the Evidence Shows
How does drug legalization affect recidivism? It can cut drug-related arrests and re-incarceration cycles when reform pairs legal access with treatment, housing, and reentry support.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 13: Mental Health, Housing, and Despair
Part 13 explores drug addiction and homelessness, mental illness, and housing-first recovery in the drug legalization and regulation series.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 12: The Reentry Window We Keep Wasting
Prison release overdose risk peaks in days and weeks after release. Which programs actually cut overdose, recidivism, and instability.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 7: Recovery Lockbox: Fund Addiction Treatment Without Raising Taxes
A recovery lockbox captures enforcement savings and regulated-market revenue to fund MOUD, housing, and reentry — using FY 2025 budget realities.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 3: The Hidden Sentence
Drug felony conviction: voting rights, gun rights, and the permanent sentence rarely discussed. Part 3 in the drug legalization series.
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Drug Legalization Series Part 2: How Drug Criminalization Creates a Permanent Underclass
Drug felony consequences go far beyond court — employment and housing barriers, ruined credit, and traps that follow people long after release.