Drug Courts

The new treatment may help overcome some courts' lingering—and dangerous—aversion to medication-assisted treatment.

Updates to past Pacific Standard stories.

Seeing opioid addiction as a disease, instead of a moral failing, helps.

As drug courts spread across the world, new standards and best practices aim to hold them all accountable.

Hailed as the most compassionate way for the criminal justice system to deal with addicts, drug courts were designed to balance punishment with rehabilitation. But after 25 years, the verdict is in: Drug courts embolden judges to practice medicine without a license—and they put lives in danger.

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

Community courts across the country are fighting judicial backlog and lowering re-arrest rates.

Stories from the 25th anniversary celebration of the nation’s first drug court.

Vet courts, like drug courts, treat the underlying factors for first-time offenders.

Eric Holder’s plan to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders is met with praise, and supported by the facts.