Residential drug rehab 'dying' in Scotland warns expert
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An emergency summit is to be held to discover why occupancy rates at Scotland's residential drug treatment centres are so low. It comes as one expert has warned that residential rehab – one of the Scottish government's key planks in its drugs strategy …
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Drug Treatment in Prison: Orientation
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Prisoners who qualify for the Bureau of Prisons' Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) can get up to a year off their sentence for completing the 500-hour, 10 month-long course. Upon admission, each prisoner is given an orientation handbook to …
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Rogelio Flores ends era in substance abuse treatment court
Filed under: residential drug treatment programs
The Substance Abuse Treatment Court is an arm of the Santa Barbara County Probation Department, and offers offenders with drug, alcohol and mental-health problems a choice to get clean in an 18-month program or go to jail. “Grow where you're planted.
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