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Abstract: 

Problem-solving courts, like the Family Drug Treatment Courts (FTCs) model, are changing the justice landscape in fundamental, perhaps enduring ways. Drug courts are sweeping the country in a contagion fueled by government grants and well-intentioned, enthusiastic state and local judges frustrated by a perceived lost war on drugs. A new interdependency of function marries the judiciary to community-based services promising to significantly alter the allocation of justice and social service resources. This article outlines the Family Drug Treatment Court model specifically and highlights certain dilemmas and barriers that such programs face.

Keywords: drug court

Affiliations:  1: Dominican College.