drug courts

The Oklahoma Opioid Abatement Board has distributed more than $9 million in grants to help communities address the opioid crisis. Now, the board is searching for a firm to track how that money is used and what difference it makes.

Drug treatment courts help those charged with drug and alcohol offenses straighten out their lives, with documented success. But, efforts to reform Oklahoma's criminal justice system are causing unintended consequences for the program.

Recovering from drug addiction requires personal accountability, but that’s hard to do from home. So, Oklahoma drug courts have to innovate to maintain…

Millions of dollars to make more room in the state’s drug courts, mental health courts, and community sentencing programs could be a possibility under a…

People enrolled in the Oklahoma County Drug Court have to report to a lab for drug tests. Judge Kenneth Stoner tells more than a dozen men and women…

It’s impossible to predict who will commit a crime in the future, but clinicians at a program funded by the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and…

Addiction is a bitter enemy that has haunted Angie White’s family for decades. White has watched her 49-year-old brother struggle with drug abuse most of…

Twenty years is a long time to live with a drug addiction, but Rachel Wachel has done it. She tends bar, has a house and a car — and calls herself a…