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Criminalizing Addiction and Mental Illness: A Case Study

October 5, 2015 by Kim Whiting

Should addiction and mental illness be treated by social services instead of incarceration? Mickey’s story helps answer this question.

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Beautiful Souls in Bleak Cages

September 21, 2015 by Kim Whiting

Mickey’s story illuminates the criminalization of mental illness and addiction and inspires ideas for social and prison reform

Filed Under: U.S. Tagged With: addiction, bruce alexander, corrections, counseling, drug addiction, inmate, inspirational, kim whiting, mental illness, opiate research, prison, prison reform, prisoner, rat park, rat research