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Public Policy Solution #3
Coordination with Addiction Treatment and Recovery Service Providers Should Occur at Each Point of Entry into the Criminal Justice System
Research has demonstrated that the most effective approaches to addressing addiction in the criminal justice system are those that integrate criminal justice supervision and the full range of effective addiction treatment and recovery support services. Integrating addiction treatment services in the criminal justice system yields the best results by optimizing the quality of both supervision and services and sending the clear and strong message from all parts of the law enforcement community—judiciary, prosecutor, defender, incarceration facilities, and supervision staff—that treatment is a central aspect of the sentence issued or of a pretrial release condition.1
1 “Effective Practices for Protecting Public Safety through Substance Abuse Treatment,” Commissioned for NIDA, March 2000
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