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For nearly three decades, drug courts across the U.S. have provided an effective alternative to jail, by diverting addicted, non-violent defendants into treatment and, ideally, recovery. Now, the city of Buffalo, N.Y., has developed the first opiate-specific drug court, which expedites addicts into “wraparound” treatment, before their cases are adjudicated by the court. Designed to […]