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Community-based drug treatment

   Drugs and drug-using behavior are linked to crime in several ways. The effects of drug-related behavior, violence as the effect of drug use, robberies for the money necessary to buy drugs, violence against rival traffickers influence society daily. But treating drug users who commit offences cuts crime rates more effectively than putting them in prison...

   As an alternative to incarceration, community-based drug treatment and rehabilitation services are provided in concert with criminal justice sanctions and procedures that reinforce each other. Unlike corrections-based programs, which must operate under the constraints of the institution and under the command of corrections officers, community-based programs are free to exercise their own approach to drug treatment in a therapeutic manner. In addition to treating drug addiction, these programs can better deal with individuals’ psychological abuse, unemployment and dysfunctional family relationships, while avoiding many of the negative consequences of incarceration.

   Community-based drug treatment represents  an integrated model of drug treatment in the community, including  services from detoxification to aftercare and also involving  the coordination of any number of non-specialist services that are needed to meet addicted individuals needs. A key focus of community-based drug treatment is reaching people that are affected by the harms of substance abuse with limited access to services, developing the necessary skills to manage their addiction and related problems in the community.

   The Treatment Accountability for Safer Communication (TASC) program has shown that coercive authority of the criminal justice system can be used to get individuals into treatment and to manage drug-abusing offenders safely and effectively in the community. TASC's objective is to provide a bridge between the criminal justice system and the drug treatment community. Through TASC, some drug offenders are diverted from the criminal justice system and into community-based supervision, others receive treatment as part of probation, and the last ones are assigned to transitional services as they leave an institutional program. 

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