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The Drug Court Movement

September 1995
The drug court movement began in the 1980s in response to the growing number of drug-related court cases. Traditional law enforcement and corrections policies alone were not having the impact on drug supply and demand that the proponents of the "War Against Drugs" had hoped. As a result, in the summer of 1989, an administrative order from the chief judge of Florida's 11th judicial circuit set the first drug court in motion. A new report of the National Institute of Justice and the State Justice Institute, Justice and Treatment Innovation: The Drug Court Movement, examines the drug court movement and the findings of the First National Drug Court Conference.