The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Program (OJP), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), along with the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), recently awarded close to $76 million in grants to increase the treatment capacity within drug courts.
The function of a drug court is to provide alternative approaches to imprisonment such as addiction treatment as opposed to conventional jail time for offenders.
“These grants will significantly impact the dynamic within jails and prisons across the United States,” begins a spokesperson for Mountainside
Drug Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Center. “It is estimated that 60 percent of all individuals within the criminal justice system have substance abuse problems. If courts are given the means to intervene in a manner that rehabilitates an individual as opposed to just incarcerating him or her, states will have the opportunity to short circuit the cycle of drug abuse and, as a result, drug related crime rates will fall. The problem for such programs has always been the lack of funding. Thankfully, the government saw the need and the success of such programs and answered the call by providing these grants. These programs really do create a win-win for everyone: the offender, the state, the criminal justice system and society at large.”
The amount of grants distributed has been equally allocated among adult and juvenile drug courts. The funds will assist states in rehabilitation of offenders through addiction treatment programs at various drug rehab facilities across the US.
Mountainside Drug Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Center has been helping individuals begin their journey to recovery from drug use for nearly two decades. Since its inception, Mountainside has been committed to creating effective and innovative treatment that will help individuals to get and to remain sober.
The compassionate, caring treatment team at Mountainside is comprised of licensed and certified counselors and social workers as well as an on-staff Nurse Practitioner and a Registered Nurse, both of whom have specialization and extensive experience in drug addiction and alcohol treatment. For clients who may have psychiatric issues and/or a dual diagnosis, Mountainside provides the services of a Psychiatrist who also has specialization in addictions. As a result of their unique, innovative approaches to addiction treatment over the past 12 years, Mountainside has become the model for the addiction treatment field.
The program, along with its professional addiction treatment team, has earned national recognition and resulted in Mountainside being invited to Washington by the White House to meet with the White House Drug Czar, John P. Waters, for an in-depth meeting on what makes its program so successful. These accolades did not go unnoticed within the addiction treatment field and resulted in the adoption by many throughout the country of a more holistic approach to drug addiction treatment.
If you or someone you love is addicted to drugs or alcohol, or if you have any questions, please contact Mountainside
Drug Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Center for a confidential inquiry at 800-762-5433.
