Crime & treatment: In her courtroom full of addicts, treatment works better than punishment

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Indiana Daily Student
April 29, 2014
By Katie Mettler

0000-OH-445060752The drug court judge peppered the addict with questions.

“So who’s the friend you thought you could trust?” she asked him abruptly. Her stare was met by his downcast eyes.

He had been accepted to drug court after a string of DUIs, but then his urine test came back positive for alcohol. Like everyone in Drug Treatment Court, he’s an addict, working to stay clean, and the judge was trying to figure out why he wasn’t.