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.