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Drug Court plays a huge roll in both Psychology and law. It is clear that drug court is for those who have a sever addiction to a substance or alcohol. I wanted to know what exactly goes on during drug court, the requirements, and some statistics that follow drug court.

Drug court was put in place in 1989. This was a system to help felony drug offenders. It is community based that focuses on rehabilitation, treatment, and supervised programs. Drug Court is specifically designed for drug offenders. It is there to help them rehabilitate their lives with a goal of lowering the incarceration rates due to drug offenders. Approximately 1/3 of people in prison are drug offenders. That is a huge number when we know the number of people just in prison alone! The United States is the leading country for drug offenders in all.

The psychology part is the addiction itself. I think it is very hard for people to really understand how addiction works, especially in highly addictive drugs. The addiction is what makes a person a felony drug offender. It takes intense drug court to help rehabilitate them and have them back to normal society. The stress that goes along with drug users to trying to become clean is a big part of psychology as well. This all falls under behavioral psychology, clinical psychology, and sometimes abnormal psychology.

For the law part of Drug Court, is the court itself and the people who play a role in drug court.  Drug Court programs have all of law enforcement personnel into play. Some of these people include judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, substance abuse treatment specialists, probation officers, law enforcement and correctional officers, education and vocational experts and many others. All of these people play their role and helping to eliminate drug offenders.

Below are some websites to help better explain drug courts and what does into them.

http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/enforce/drugcourt.html

This is a Nation Drug Court website. It gives a brief introduction, and then gives links below to specific areas.

http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/node/36

This is a website that is fact based, It shows a graph of incarceration rates and then