PSYC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Drug Court, Bioequivalence, Health Canada
18 Dec 2016
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Regulation of the sale of alcohol and tobacco: subject to federal, provincial/territorial legislation. Impaired driving: criminal code of canada offences related to driving while impaired by alcohol or other drugs. Diversion to treatment: components of cdsa allow for diversion of people from the criminal justice system into treatment. Expanding drug treatment courts in canada: judicially supervised treatment in lieu of prison time, formal admission into dtc program requires a guilty plea. Dtc expands collaboration between justice and health and social service systems: addresses issues of prison and court overcrowding, addresses lack of available services to support recovery during incarceration, first canadian dtc was established in toronto in 1998. Mandatory minimum jail sentences for marijuana offences. Mandatory minimum sentences low-level, non-violent (cid:449)ith (cid:862)aggra(cid:448)ating factor(cid:863: activity occurred in or near an area frequented by youth. In canada, the regulating body for safety, efficacy, and quality of pharmaceutical drugs is health canada.
