The benefits of the specialized instances concerning drug addiction

Abstract

Courts regarding drugs offer new perspectives in the reunion of justice management and offering proper treatment services to drug addicts that had done penal crimes. Considered to be the most significant initiative of penal justice in the last period, the court regarding drugs is presented through the benefits of the specialized programs: reducing recidivism, public funds savings, preventing draw backs and maintaining the clients in treatments, giving individualized treatments to drug consumers. The elements exposed are argued by the practice registered at the level of courts from USA and proved by different scientific research. In the article, the success factors of the courts regarding drugs that had been proposed by a group of experts UNODC are also underlined.