A look inside drug treatment courts, by those who know | Lorne Sabsay

By Lorne Sabsay ( May 23, 2018, 8:57 AM EDT) -- Friesen Press has recently published a book, People, Places and Things: Inspirational Voices from Canada's Drug Treatment Courts, edited by Justice Kofi Barnes. The book is a series of writings from various participants in drug treatment courts (DTCs) including the judges, the treatment providers and the defendant participants. It gives us tremendous insight into what goes on in DTCs and what they are really all about. The insight comes not from studies; not from statistics; not from numbers; the insight comes from real people talking about their real experience in Canada’s DTCs....