When Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller championed the passage of the harsh New York drug statutes bearing his name in May 1973, the liberal Republican sought to burnish his national crime-fighting ...

A 14-term Democrat from Western New York, he sponsored financial reforms to aid consumers and pressed Washington to protect Americans from environmental hazards. By Sam Roberts The opioid epidemic is ...

President George Edgar Vincent of the Rockefeller Foundation last week published a preliminary statement of what the Foundation accomplished last year. Many a public health official many an educator ...

It was an unanticipated consequence of the war in Vietnam--young soldiers finding relief from the horrors of combat with stimulants and sedatives. The Pentagon reported in 1973 that one in five U.S.

On April 30 Dr. Rufus Cole, director of the hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, reached the age of 65—time for a major Rockefeller Institute executive to retire. The Institute ...

New York Gov. David Paterson unveiled a landmark deal on Friday that would scrap most of his state's so-called Rockefeller drug laws. The system of mandatory prison sentences has been criticized as ...

The details of how the latest Rockefeller reforms will affect the state’s 175 drug courts are still up in the air, but what happens every day in Brooklyn Treatment Court might be the model. People ...