Drug Courts are Not the Answer: Toward a Health-Centered Approach to Drug Use
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Jul. 12, 2011
ANNOTATION: This report focuses on the impact of drug courts and how they “compare with other policy approaches to drug use in terms of reducing drug arrests, incarceration and costs as well as problematic drug use” (p. 2). Five sections follow an executive summary: introduction; drug courts and the drug war; understanding drug courts—what the research shows; mixing treatment and punishment—a faulty approach; toward a health-centered approach to drug use; and conclusion. Drug courts seem to fail those individuals that have serious compulsive drug problems. Drug courts should be used for cases involving crimes against a person or property due to drug use rather than drug law violations.
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