MN Courts Want to Help Parents Battling Opioid Addiction
While opioid addiction continues to ravage families across the United States, Minnesota is working hard to help keep drug offenders from prison.
They do so by helping them into treatment programs through specialized Drug Courts. They’ve even created a sub-court system, Drug Courts for Families, which caters to those families battling addiction in order to help them stay together.
Here’s what you need to know about addiction and the court system in Minnesota and how family-based treatments are working to keep families together instead of being torn apart.
How Opioids Are Affecting MinnesotansAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deaths due to prescription opioids are on the rise. In 2010, a little over 21,000 people died from [...]
