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Drug Treatment Courts aim to stop drug abuse and related criminal activity of offenders
through court-directed treatment and rehabilitative programs. Discover how they work
and what makes them successful.
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They work together to help addicted offenders into long-term recovery, with the first
drug court introduced in Miami-Dade County in 1989 as a growing response to the crack
cocaine problem plaguing Florida. As of 2014, approximately 3,057 drug courts
represent every state in the union, along with District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico,
Northern Mariana Islands, and various tribal regions.
Drug court treatment has an impressive record as the single most successful
intervention in U.S. history for leading people struggling with serious addiction out of the
justice system and into lives of health and long-term recovery.
Below is the analysis that concluded drug courts were more successful than jail time —
statistically more significant than imprisonment. As you can see, with drug court, the
new arrests were vastly lower than the control group. (15.4% of further drug-related
arrests, as opposed to 84.6% for the control group)
The analysis show that shows that drug courts were more successful than incarceration
and showing with statistics it is more significant than incarceration as you can see, with
drug court, the new arrests were vastly lower than the control group. (15,4% of further
drug related arrests, as opposed to 84.6% for the control group)