CHEVY CHASE, Maryland, April 7 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Society of Addiction Medicine posted the following news release: * * * ASAM Offers Policy Solutions to Achieve ONDCP's Goals of Expanding Access to Addiction Treatment and Disrupting the Illicit Drug Supply Chain from "Tooth to Tail" ASAM also calls for a cautious and compassionate criminal justice approach to prevent overcriminalization of Americans with SUD Rockville, MD - In response to the release of the White House   more

WASHINGTON, April 7 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR Action Alert: ACT NOW to Pass HB1222 Values Act to Protect Maryland's Immigrant Communities The Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is urging the community to take swift action to contact Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson and Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Chair Will Smith and urge them to act now to pass House Bil  more

ANTIGONISH, Nova Scotia, April 8 -- St. Francis Xavier University issued the following news: * * * Enabling important research: three StFX faculty receive SSHRC Connection Grants Three StFX faculty members, Dr. Maria Soledad Paz-Mackay, Dr. Kara Thompson, and Dr. Jonathan Langdon, have successfully received SSHRC Connection Grants that will, respectively, help advance studies on mothering in Latin America contexts; campus alcohol policies in Canada; and learning among non-profits in a global   more

LAUREL, Maryland, April 7 [Category: Science] -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory posted the following news release: * * * Johns Hopkins APL Team Applies Expertise to Homeland Defense Wargame A team from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, played a central role in a recent Defense Department wargame that addressed the challenges of protecting logistics infrastructure against growing adversarial threats. Held at APL and sponsored by   more

NEW YORK, April 7 [Category: Media] -- PEN America, an organization that says it stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression, posted the following news release: * * * PEN America and Maryland ACLU Argue in Legal Filing that U.S. Education Department Policies Will Turbocharge Book Bans and Expand Censorship (NEW YORK)--PEN America has filed a "friend of the court" brief, together with the ACLU of Maryland, in a case challenging the Trump administration'  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 [Category: Political] -- Americans for Tax Reform posted the following commentary: * * * Radical Maryland Democrats Create New "Sleep Tax" If there's one constant in Maryland politics, it's that Democrats are always finding new ways to raise taxes. Their latest idea? Believe it or not, a tax on sleep. No, they do not want to make you pay a fee before you go to bed every night; but they do want consumers to pay more for mattresses to help "save the environment." HB 858 woul  more

CHEVY CHASE, Maryland, April 7 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Society of Addiction Medicine posted the following news release: * * * The ASAM Weekly for April 2nd, 2025 This Week in the ASAM Weekly Did you know there are medical marvels living amongst us with the ability to drink lots of alcohol without experiencing a hangover? Known as "hangover resistants," these genetic mutants represent about 25% of study populations, but for some reason the government isn't funding the researc  more