Montco Drug Court Embraces Treatment, Not Jail for Heroin Addicts

Published March 28, 2013

Montco Drug Court embraces treatment, not jail for heroin addicts

Filed under: drug addiction treatment

“You're not dead yet from your addiction,” O'Neill told two women and a man as he accepted them into the county's drug court program. “It's pretty hard to live with an addiction like all of you have had, and you're not dead, because that's where …
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Large crowd attends Drug Court graduation ceremony in Madison

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He has strongly supported initiatives like the Safe and Drug Free School Program and the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program, while also recognizing that one of the biggest challenges is providing treatment for those who are addicted …
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Addiction medicine discovered at prisons

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“The appropriate use is as a medicine … to ease a person who is addicted to opiates off of those opiates,” said Paul H. Coleman, the president and CEO of Maryhaven, a drug- and alcohol-addiction treatment center.“Obviously, if you're smuggling them …
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