State Jails Struggle With Lack of Treatment, Rehab Programs

Published January 18, 2013

State jails struggle with lack of treatment, rehab programs

Filed under: drug rehab treatments

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that Gene Mooney, a small-time thief and drug user who was the poster boy for the creation of Texas' system of rehabilitation-oriented state jails in 1995, is still in prison. After all, had he received more drug …
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Torrington area woman sentenced to year for drug use while in rehab

Filed under: drug rehab treatments

Now 38, the Torrington area woman was sentenced to a year in prison when she appeared this week on allegations she used drugs while she was involved in a methadone treatment rehabilitation program. The finding was made after a routine drug test …
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