Drug courts

R. McCullough, The use of the Drugwipe in a drug court setting. National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center Rocky Mountain Regional Center, 5th Annual Innovative Technologies for Community Corrections Conference, Boston, MA, June 14-16, 2004. 

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Cavanagh, Suzanne, and David Teasley. Drug Courts An Overview. Washington, D.C. Congressional Research Service, 1998. Describes the key features of drug courts, which focus on supervised treatment and rehabilitation of offenders rather than incarceration. 

In the treatment area, money was provided for grants to start Drug Courts (court-mandated treatment and related services for nonviolent offenders) and for funding for substance abuse treatment in state and federal prisons. These programs were in addition to the Block Grant and Veterans Administration funding for treatment mentioned earlier. 

Demand Reduction In the treatment area, more money was devoted to Drug Courts and a Youth Treatment Initiative was started. The Youth Treatment Initiative was to support interventions for juvenile offenders. More money was also allocated to the National Institute on Drug Abuse to conduct research. 

The highUght of the demand reduction NDCS was the President s Access to Recovery Initiative. This is a voucher system in which those in need of treatment or recovery services could choose the provider that best meets their needs. The intent of this initiative was to increase the involvement of faith-based organizations in providing treatment and recovery services. The President requested 600 miUion over 3 years for Access to Recovery but Congress has cut this request in half for the last 2 years. Increases in Drug Courts and research for the National Institute on Drug Abuse were also included in the NDCS. 

In Chapter 2, you may recall the many references to drug courts and the increasing amount of money devoted to these programs. Drug courts are specialized criminal courts that handle cases involving substance-abusing offenders. 

This agency is part of the Department of Justice. It received over 38 miUion in 2004, over 64 million in 2005, and requested over 114 milUon in 2006 to fund two programs—Drug Courts and Residential Substance Abuse Treatment. Drug Courts, which coordinate treatment services for nonviolent offenders with drug problems as an alternative to incarceration, have been described in other chapters. 

Small-scale drug distributors, who sell drugs to support their addiction, should be arrested and referred to drug court. However, a drug consumption facility should be one alternative if the person is appropriate for that approach. 

National Association of Drug Court Professionals. What is a drug court http //www.nadcp.org/whatis/ (accessed August 30, 2005). 

Marijuana (Cannabis sativa) is one of tlie most commonly used and abused substances worldwide. Therefore, reliable analyses for A -tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and its characteristics metabolites are needed for testing indications such as the workplace, drug-treatment monitoring, drug courts, probation, and parole and for testing drivers suspected of operating motor vehicles while under the influence of drugs (DUID). 

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