So-called drug courts can mandate treatment for an offender that includes frequent, involuntary testing.
Only about 5% of convicted drug users are under the jurisdiction of drug courts.
There are now more than 2, 600 drug courts across the nation, reaching 120, 000 individuals annually.
Drug courts require them to become rather like moral tutors, involved daily in the life of defendants.
If drug courts do work, they could prove a powerful way to reduce America's demand for drugs.
The government plans to set up specialist drug courts which seem to have worked in America to deal with them.
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By promoting models like family drug courts, family-based treatment, and family-centered reentry programs, we can help families stay together and get better, together.
If there is a risk with setting up a national network of drug courts, it is that judges may not rise to the challenge.
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said greater use by courts of drug rehabilitation in the community was needed as well as more effective limitations on drug supply inside jails.
The construction project also involves warm-up courts, a drug-testing facility, a press compound, and merchandise and concession stands.
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The sorting of winners and losers at the drug testing station and in the courts must eventually pall with the public too.
He argues courts are ill-equipped to subject drug manufacturers to after-the-fact analysis.
The lawsuit is a combined horror story of the U.S. healthcare and legal systems, particularly the practice of courts to assign blame to deep-pocketed drug companies for injuries caused by medical malpractice.
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And it strengthens tribal courts and police departments and enhances programs to combat drug and alcohol abuse and help at-risk youth.
But so far plaintiff lawyers have failed to convince courts to award damages to insurance plans that allegedly paid inflated drug bills as a result of the conspiracy.
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There is little support for including drug-trafficking and terrorism, which most feel should be left to national courts.
As well as their solidarity in the courts, at least 35 states have banded together to form a task-force to look into drug-pricing issues.
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