But they’ve soared over the past decade, with drastic year-over-year increases, according to researchers at the Northeastern University School of Law.

Leo Beletsky, of Northeastern University’s Health in Justice Lab, said the system’s overreach, and the frequency with which treatment appears to be misallocated, are good arguments for ceasing testing for cannabis.

Modeled heat index, a measure of heat and humidity. (Maps created by researchers at the Museum of Science, Boston and the Helmuth Lab at Northeastern University. Traverse Points and Landsat Model Raster Data by CAPA Strategies.)

It is a kind of stealth clothing, intended to confuse video surveillance systems, designed by Northeastern University computer engineer Xue Lin in cooperation with researchers at IBM Corp. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

That idea has been around for decades, says Matthew Goodwin, associate professor of health sciences and computer science at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dov Waxman, Professor of Political Science, International Affairs and Israel Studies, Northeastern University

David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership, is the author of “Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride.”

Meg Heckman advises the Scope, an experimental digital magazine housed in Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and focused on telling neighborhood stories of justice, hope and resilience in Greater Boston.

Yet, the ongoing overdose crisis has caused New York, New Jersey and other states to turn to marijuana on the premise that pot “is far less risky than injecting heroin or fentanyl, so why not try it?” said Leo Beletsky, a public health policy expert at Northeastern University in Boston.

Daniel Aldrich, the director of the Security and Resilience Program at Northeastern University, suggests a shift in thinking about the problem from an individual level to a community level. Instead of securing batteries or water for one house, communities should band together to make sure the most vulnerable have what they need, he says.

Drawing on six years of surveys and interviews, the team based at Northeastern University in Massachusetts “found that psychological distress and social disruption were pervasive throughout New England fishing communities,” the authors wrote in their paper in the journal Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences.

“If you think that everything you say to your counselor is going to be disclosed to your parents, you as a student might not be forthcoming,” Medwed said, adding that the law does allow students to waive their right to privacy and disclose their mental health records to their parents.