Panel to talk about
isle drug treatment law
"Treatment Instead of Incarceration" will be discussed by a panel of professionals in the field from 8:30 a.m. to noon tomorrow at the McCoy Pavilion at Ala Moana Beach Park.
Speakers will include Dr. Bill Quirk, addictions psychiatry fellow in the joint University of Hawaii/Department of Defense Addictions Psychiatry Fellowship; Susan Arnett, deputy state public defender and felony trials supervisor; and Whitney Taylor, director of Proposition 36 implementation for the Drug Policy Alliance, California.
They will review Act 161, passed last year by Hawaii's Legislature to allow first-time nonviolent drug offenders to go to treatment instead of jail and California's version of the law, Proposition 36.
A $10 donation is requested, which includes continental breakfast. For more information, call 384-7794.