"Health & Medical News"

A plan to establish drug courts in all 22 circuit courts in Mississippi has run aground because of funding concerns, the Hattiesburg American reported Jan. 30.

The goal of the expansion of the state’s existing drug-court program was to save money by reducing incarceration and providing treatment to addicted offenders, but lawmakers haven’t come up with the money to support taking the program to scale. Mississippi established a statewide drug court in 2003, but it was not funded until 2004, when fines for certain crimes were directed to a special fund that has generated about $4 million a year.

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The New York and Boston public-transit systems have lagged in protecting children from exposure to alcohol advertising, according to the Marin Institute, which wants to ban all alcohol ads from municipal trains, buses, and other transit services.

NY1 News reported Nov. 8 that Marin officials held a press conference at City Hall in New York to call for an alcohol-ad ban at the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA).

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