Article: Kanawha County to launch drug court

Kanawha County is one of five areas in West Virginia that will launch its own drug court in early 2009, offering treatment and supervision to nonviolent offenders whose addictions have landed them in the criminal justice system.

Nationally, the number of drug courts has exploded, growing from 665 in 2000 to 2,147 in 2007, according to the National Drug Court Institute.

"It gives these folks a support system around them in the actual community where they will be living, a means of changing their life so that they don't have to go back to criminal activity," said Linda Richmond Artimez, the state Supreme Court's administrative counsel of mental hygiene services.

"The whole idea here is putting ...

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