Successful Treatment Drug Courts: An Alternative to Incarceration

Successful Treatment Drug Courts: An Alternative to Incarceration: "Treatment drug courts provide a successful alternative to incarceration for defendants who constantly cycle between addiction leading to crime, incarceration, release, relapse, and recidivism. This month's cover story in the March-April 2006 issue of SAMHSA News highlights treatment drug courts -- often referred to simply as drug courts -- funded since the late 1990s by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)."