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11 Percent of Prison Inmates Get Drug Treatment: Crime Statistics

March 3, 2010

Gentlepeople: The report below states that 11 percent of prison inmates who need it receive drug treatment. It repeats findings of earlier studies.
The same dilemma exists for inmates with mental health issues; the vast majority do not receive treatment. Ditto for offenders with educational and occupational deficiencies.
The Pew Center for the States, the Sentencing Project and [...]

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Drug Addiction:Only Two of Twenty-five Million Drug Addicts Getting Treatment

December 8, 2009

Gentlereaders: The new officials at the Office of National Drug Control Policy state that only two of twenty-five million addicts receive drug treatment (this site offered similar research several weeks ago). The article correctly points out two things: that we need to prove the worthiness of programs and that there is a lot of competition [...]

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Expanding Drug Treatment: Is US Ready to Step Up?

November 10, 2009

 Full article in the New York Times at
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/09/business/AP-US-Drug-War-The-Treatment-Challenge.html?_r=1
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 9, 2009

Filed at 9:03 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) — Based on the rhetoric, America’s war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favor over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation’s [...]

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Offender Substance Abuse; Findings from Two Studies

November 3, 2009

 
The descriptions below are available through http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/evaluation/e-news/oct09.pdf
 
First study: Hall, Prendergast, Roll, and Warda evaluated a 26-week intervention for substance abusing offenders referred to outpatient treatment. The purpose of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the use of vouchers for goods and services for participants of a court-ordered treatment program for substance abuse.
 
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