A program that gives criminal offenders a choice between appearing in a courtroom or entering drug treatment will begin today in Rutland County. Called “rapid intervention,” the program treats ...

RUTLAND -- Gov. Peter Shumlin and state officials rolled out a new program they hope will reduce costs for taxpayers and rehabilitate drug users in Rutland County. "Instead of treating this as a crime ...

LANCASTER − Not everyone arrested for drug-related offenses goes to prison. Project F.O.R.T. (Fairfield County Overdose Response Team) is a drug intervention program director Scott Duff leads that is ...

MIDDLETOWN — A drug intervention program is considering seizing property or barricading portions of Eighth Avenue to wipe out drug trafficking on the street. Middletown Drug Market Intervention ...

Addiction and mental illness are closely related. According to the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, nearly 8.4 million American adults have a mental illness as well as an addiction.

The success of drug intervention court programs could offer a glimpse of the future for Mississippi's fledgling mental health court system, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Randolph told a ...

In an effort to cleaning up some neighborhoods through eliminating known open air drug markets and drug related crime in Middletown, the city will implement a drug market intervention strategy in the ...