Suggest a strategy for newly released offenders to help them remain drug and crime free

The issue facing many communities is how to provide resources to released drug offenders to prevent them from continuing to commit crime. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, “Potential risk factors for released offenders include pressures from peers and family members to return to drug use and a criminal lifestyle.

Tensions of daily life—violent associates, few opportunities for legitimate employment, lack of safe housing, and even the need to comply with correctional supervision conditions—can also create stressful situations that can precipitate a relapse to drug use” and criminal behavior (NIDA – 2014, April 18).

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As police chief, you realize that in order to prevent drug-related crimes in your community, you need to develop a strategy for newly released offenders to help them remain drug and crime free.

Read the following article, Principles of Drug Abuse Treatment for Criminal Justice Populations – A Research-Based Guide, then discuss two suggestions for resources you would recommend for helping offenders released from prison to stay drug and crime free using community resources.

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