Reclaiming Futures: Helping Kids Caught in the Cycle of Drugs, Alcohol and Crime

Published October 14, 2013

Reclaiming Futures: Helping Kids Caught in the Cycle of Drugs, Alcohol and Crime – Nearly 2 million teenagers are arrested every year. Eighty percent test positive for drugs or alcohol, but the vast majority of juvenile justice systems neve…

Stanley: Heroin problem has legislators' attention

Filed under: drug abuse help for teenagers

fileheaderid: 6458749. Drug addiction is not a problem our community can arrest or legislate our way out of. … Bertino-Tarrant said her purpose on the Young Adults Heroin Use Task Force will be to help drug prevention efforts through education. The …
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Drug court: Juvenile drug court opens in Stutsman, Barnes counties

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Substance-abusing teens charged with nonviolent crimes in Barnes and Stutsman counties may be able to get those charges dismissed, should they enroll and graduate from a new juvenile drug court. By: By Kari Lucin, The Jamestown Sun, The Jamestown …
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