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Public Policy Solution #2
Addiction Treatment Increases Public Safety, Reduces Recidivism and Drug and Alcohol Use, and Saves Money
Extensive evidence from evaluations of drug courts and other diversion programs, prison-based treatment, and treatment in the community after release from incarceration demonstrate that criminal justice-based treatment significantly reduces drug and alcohol use and crime, as well as health and social problems.1
1 “Special Focus on Therapeutic Communities: Research in Review,” Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Volume 4, Number 2: August 2001, page 7, http://www.cor.state.pa.us/doc/lib/stats/RIR/Volume%204%20-%202001/RIRV4N2.pdf
Developed by the Legal Action Center in Collaboration with the National Institute on
Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health/
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services