Courts Provide Care for Mentally Ill

Published January 8, 2013

Courts provide care for mentally ill

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As service providers grapple with limited resources, though, judges point to the growing number of mental health courts —programs that offer mentally ill criminal defendants treatment-based alternatives to jail—as a success story. An offshoot of the …
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Number schemers or lazy so-and-sos?

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Earlier in the courts, a few Correctional Services Department drug rehabilitation center officers standing trial for cheating in urine tests also attempted to blame the system for their own wrongdoings. Heavy workloads are no excuse. The pressure in …
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Prescription drug abuse causes changes at Hazelden

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"It's absolutely an epidemic," he said. "I think that's the best word for opiate addiction today in America." The Center for Disease Control describes it the same way after the death toll from prescription painkiller overdoses increased five times over …
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