{"id":1053,"date":"2009-01-28T18:25:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T18:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2010-06-16T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T12:57:15","slug":"drug-courts-pay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/01\/drug-courts-pay-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Courts Pay Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A St. Louis study finds that drug courts and addiction treatment are far more cost-effective than probation over the long run, Alcoholism &amp; Drug Abuse Weekly reported March 8.<\/p>\n<p>The study by the Institute of Applied Research focused on the city&#8217;s adult felony drug court. Researchers concluded that drug court costs about $1,449 per offender more up front than probation, but end up saving taxpayers $7,707 within four years of discharge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The drug-court client pays for his drug-court experience within about 3.5 years by avoiding costs [such as reinvolvement with the criminal-justice system] and paying taxes,&#8221; said Jeffrey N. Kushner, the city&#8217;s drug-court administrator.<\/p>\n<p>The complete report is available on the Institute of Applied Research website.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic; text-align: right;\">Source: JTO online March 2004<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A St. Louis study finds that drug courts and addiction treatment are far more cost-effective than probation over the long run, Alcoholism &amp; Drug Abuse Weekly reported March 8. The study by the Institute of Applied Research focused on the city&#8217;s adult felony drug court. Researchers concluded that drug court costs about $1,449 per offender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,36,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prevention-research","category-treatment-addiction","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}