Category: Drug Courts

Opiates and Politics

In the last decade opiate use has risen significantly. Overdoses and deaths from opiate use are increasing at a frightening rate. Whether it’s opiates like heroin or morphine or synthetic opioids like Percocet or Oxycodone, there’s no difference when considering the consequences of addiction and misuse and possible solutions. When a person develops…

The Presidential Election and Addiction

I would like to think that whoever becomes our next President will have a good understanding of our nation’s problem with addiction, but I haven’t heard much at all about the subject from the candidates — they appear to have lots of other things on…

Drug Courts: National Results

Drug Courts have been around for a long time and the results have been very good. Most of us who’ve worked in the treatment field have known for a long time that jail has always exacerbated addiction, and that treatment of addiction is better for…