The Long Road Of Recovery For A Lawyer

The Larimer County 8th Judicial District Adult Drug Court program is a governmental agency that provides helps to individuals within the judicial system with drug abuse related offenses gain the tools for success to become a positive member of the community. The clients in this program have voluntarily chosen to be in this program and follow the terms and conditions of their probation as signed by a drug court contract that follows there terms and conditions set by the court. This may seem like a forced step or little step to some, but in reality, this is the first biggest step for drug abuse individuals because it means they are admitting they have a problem with drug abuse. Now it’s the Adult Drug Court team’s opportunity to provide the

In most cases, one of the main objectives of courts and the sentences they impose is that of rehabilitation. This is evidenced through a growing move in favour of a more holistic approach to justice, trying to address the issues which may have led to the crime, rather than just punishing the end result. One of the prime examples of this therapeutic approach to justice is the introduction of the Drug Court. Governed by the Drug Court Act 1998, the Drug court has both Local court and District court jurisdiction, and seeks to target the causes of drug-related criminal behaviour. It achieves this by ensuring that those who go through it receive treatment for their addictions, thereby reducing their propensity to reoffend, as many crimes are motivated by the need to satisfy addictions.

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The National Institute of Justice funds a unique Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation (Rossman et al., 2011). This evaluation occurs over a five-year period and analyzes the process, impact, and cost evaluation of drug courts from 29 various jurisdictions throughout the United States. Twenty-three drug courts in eight states, Georgia, Florida, and Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina, and Washington, are examined throughout the process. This evaluation only chooses certain drug courts, therefore how resources are being implemented, cost savings, and outcomes are only being examined at those drug courts, but what about the other drug court

Professional audience for this paper: lawyers related to DUI cases and doctors who are sued for prescribing methadone

A mental health counselor has come a long way to provide service for people or clients who are in need of mental health service. Today, more people are suffering with depression, which they result of alcohol and drug misuse to help them forget the pain they are feeling. As a result, alcohol and drug abuse lead to impairment of judgement which may guide to criminal activity and harsh punishment. Due to ignorant or no knowledge of mental health service, judges normally lock people away who have committed to such crimes instead of sending them to an alcohol and drug abuse center or hospital for treatment. For this reason, once an inmate is released back into society, they go back to using drugs and commits a crime and lock away in prison causing

Therapeutic Jurisprudence is the study of how aspects of legal system impacts the mental wellness.The implications of law on mental health is an ignored part of law. The research deals with the core idea of therapeutic jurisprudence and how it effects people placing reliance on various laws and legal practices prevalent in the legal system.In 1987, David Wexler conveyed a paper to the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States coining the term “Therapeutic Jurisprudence”.Therapeutic jurisprudence is the “study of the role of the law as a therapeutic agent”. Therapeutic Jurisprudence proposed that psychiatry, and extensive controls of the sociologies had significant depths of knowledge to offer to the field of law and psychological wellness and that the law and the legal system ought to endeavour to utilize the knowledge where appropriate. Therapeutic Jurisprudence is an interdisciplinary way to deal with the study and routine of law and focuses on the regularly undervalued part of the law and lawful performing artists' part in delivering helpful or anti-therapeutic results. It is a regulating structure that backers the utilization of the sociologies to illuminate the procedures and results of lawful communications and techniques. Therapeutic Jurisprudence impacts the procedures of the court and inclinations an extended rehabilitative part for criminal attorneys. Therapeutic Jurisprudence likewise impacts the way attorneys

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program take defendants through an intensive treatment program lasting for a year or more, with the end result being sober members of the community with stable employment or positive progress through a vocational or educational program (DeKalb County Drug Court, 2006). During the levels of C.L.E.A.N. volunteer defendants have a drug court team. Each team consists of a designated judge, representatives of the State’s Attorney’s Office, the public defender or legal counsel of the defendant, court services, law enforcement, treatment providers, a community representative and a drug court staff member (DeKalb County Drug Court, 2006 p.34). The drug court team meets prior to drug court sessions and acts a case-management team for participants in the C.L.E.A.N. program before each drug court session. Information is shared about the participants based on each team member’s perspective and interaction with them. A professional consensus is gathered from the available knowledge and used in determining the progress through the phases of individual members (DeKalb County Drug Court,

As a judge over a drug court program who has a drug user appearing before me for the fourth time, I must take certain thoughts into consideration. Drug courts are designed for non-violent offenders with substance abuse problems who require integrated sanctions and services, including (a) mandatory periodic testing for the use of controlled substances; (b) substance abuse treatment; (c) diversion, probation, or other supervised release; and (d) aftercare services such as relapse prevention, health care, education, vocational training, job placement, housing placement, and child care (Siegel & Bartolla, 2011). Additionally, knowing that approximately 80 percent of offenders in the United States were under the influence of drugs and or alcohol

There are millions of people who have and who are suffering from alcoholism. For those seeking help with their addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) may be the right for them. While this program is not promised to be a cure, and the authors of this program does not promise full recovery, it provides an atmosphere where members can be honest about their dependency on alcohol. Furthermore, AA provides support from other alcoholics, and rewards for meeting certain sobriety anniversary dates. This paper explores the history and major developments of AA. Furthermore, this paper explains the structure of meetings, and the roles the leader and members play during meetings. This paper also touches on AA’s definition of success and how it handles members who relapse. Additionally, this paper explains this student’s experiences of two AA meetings she attended, which include what she learned from attending the meetings, and what she learned from the people she met at the meetings.

“We were driving up the mountain and a boulder came rolling down and flipped over our car”

The second speaker was a male attorney who had struggled all of his adult life with alcoholism. He stated that he would work the program and find success in staying sober but whenever he lost a case that resulted in someone

Everyday, more and more people are being claimed by alcoholism. The most important message AA makes is that there is help available, and there are people who want to help you, just as other helped them. Louis, a 79 year old AA member reciprocates his AA experience by “try[ing] to help the younger people find sobriety and happiness the way I have. I tell them, “If I can do it, so can you” (AA pamphlet). This is just one of many stories AA members have to offer an observer.

In addition to dinner, the menu included an open bar. What originally started out to be an innocent and business appropriate function turned into a wild free-for-all that lasted into the late hours of the night, and behaviors erupted that should never occur in any business relationship. The following morning, a large percentage of those in attendance at the party were absent from work, and many of those who did show up were tardy and ill, incapable of performing their duties. Productivity was significantly decreased for the entire day, and for some, even into the following day. In light of that single event, the practice of “open bar” social gatherings between the financial office and the dealerships was abolished. It is not surprising to note that according to the United States Office of Personnel Management, the rate of absenteeism is estimated to be 4 to 8 times greater among alcoholics and alcohol abusers (L'Etoile, 2011) .