Hawaii Finds Success With Tough-Love Approach to Repeat Offenders

Published December 1, 2012

Hawaii finds success with tough-love approach to repeat offenders

Filed under: drug abuse treatment outcome study

If they can't keep clean, they'll be required to attend drug and alcohol abuse meetings, or be ordered into outpatient treatment, followed by a two-year residential program if they screw up again. And if they do, they'll serve the full sentence they …
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This Week in Poverty: A Wake-Up Call on Housing and Homelessness

Filed under: drug abuse treatment outcome study

Pathways provides its wraparound services through Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams that use evidence-based care that has been studied since the 1970s. Each team consists of a substance abuse specialist, vocational counselor, nurse, …
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The House I Live In

Filed under: drug abuse treatment outcome study

Between draconian mandatory-minimum sentencing, drug laws that target the underclass, lack of addiction treatment, and an economically incentivized prison-industrial complex, the War on Drugs has become a monstrously wasteful scheme to warehouse …
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