Trading Incarceration for Rehabilitation
The programs offer mental health evaluations, addiction treatment and job training to help break the jail-to-street-to-jail cycle that so commonly plagues homeless drug users. Seattle's new pre-booking diversion program, Law Enforcement Assisted … Read more on Daily Nexus

New addiction treatment venture completes Series A funding
Startup addiction treatment services company JourneyPure Inc. has completed its Series A investment led by Rolling Hills Ventures, the angel investment fund of Clayton Associates. The investment figure was not disclosed. The company has a three … Read more on Nashville Post (subscription)

Model for Ohio
DART refers minor drug offenders to treatment. Some of them will land in Zepf's recovery housing program. Lucas County not only has created a unique treatment unit run by the sheriff's office, but also has developed a growing network of treatment … Read more on Toledo Blade

Problems worsen for two drug treatment centers
Time stopped in October for two drug treatment centers on Boston's Long Island, when the city shut down the bridge that was the only route to their facilities. Both had to abandon their offices on the island. Their clients — poor and trying to kick … Read more on Boston Globe (subscription)

Huntington Mayor Williams Announces Multi Agency Addiction Treatment …
LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) – LEAD is a pre-booking diversion program that allows officers to redirect low-level offenders engaged in drugs or prostitution activity to treatment services instead of jail and prosecution. The city is … Read more on HNN Huntingtonnews.net

Veterans Courts trending in Arizona
With more military men and women returning from the battlefield with physical and mental wounds, courts that cater only to veterans — focusing on rehabilitation rather than punishment — are operating across the country, and Arizona is on the vanguard … Read more on azcentral.com

Rick Perry says changes in drug laws led to lowest Texas crime rate since 1968
Lawmakers created local drug courts, Perry said, also creating "diversion programs that treat alcoholism and drug addiction as a disease and not a moral failing." "And because of these changes in policy, we've … Generally, Texas Christian University … Read more on PolitiFact

Strawberry's journey a long, twisting one
He has spent time in Jail and at drug treatment centers and he has overcome all those issues, as well colon cancer and the removal of a cancerous kidney, and today lives a totally different life. Now an ordained minister, Strawberry said in an 2013 … Read more on Macon Telegraph (blog)

CERENIS THERAPEUTICS Announces the Appointment of a New Chief Medical …
BUSINESS WIRE)–Cerenis Therapeutics, the biopharmaceutical HDL company developing CER-001, an engineered human apoA-I-containing pre-? HDL mimetic for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, today announced the appointment of a new … "The Board … Read more on Business Wire (press release)

It's Been A Hard 12-Step Road For Zanzibar's Heroin Addicts
He not only stopped using drugs but also made amends to friends and family he'd harmed as an addict. "And before you make … But the program's Christian connection turned out to be a sensitive topic in Zanzibar, where the mostly Muslim population has … Read more on NPR (blog)

Tuesday's Wood County Circuit Court records
… Mosinee; misdemeanor causing injury by drunken driving, marijuana possession and drug paraphernalia possession; 30 days in jail with work release, 12-month driver's license revocation, two years probation, $ 1,151, alcohol assessment, any counseling … Read more on Wisconsin Rapids Tribune

Former Corfu village clerk completes diversion program
She was placed on a diversion program, a strict for of probation that included drug and alcohol counseling. Watts has repaid the money she stole while working as her father's court clerk. Her father, Robert Alexander, also was charged in connection … Read more on The Daily News Online