Next Door but Invisible- the World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction

Next Door But Invisible- The World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction – *I don’t own this video. I’m uploading it in order to add captions to it since Overstream.net (and every other third party pulling from YouTube) is down .* Original here: www.youtube.com “Penn medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and UC grad student Jeff Schonberg study the lives of homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco. SAS Frontiers, September 2009 ”

Diversion programs for low-level offenders save money, study shows

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The study didn't include Brown County in its one-year analysis. … Diversion programs include specialty courts such as those in Brown County and also day reporting centers, mental health treatment courts and other initiatives that aren't in Brown …
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The outcomes are better, but is the program cost-effective?

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Taking their study an important step further, the researchers have since conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis to gauge how efficient each approach was in preventing drug and alcohol abuse and reducing further offending. An average cost per case was …
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