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Decriminalization of Addicts
Clip: Episode 24 | 1m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
Efforts to move addicts from the judicial system to the health system.
Efforts to move addicts from the judicial system to the health system.
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Decriminalization of Addicts
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Efforts to move addicts from the judicial system to the health system.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipOne initiative that we're working on right now is we've started the Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health and Addiction, and it's looking at a sequential intercept model that really meets individuals where they are in their act of drug use perhaps, and where they're intersecting with the criminal justice system.
So the intent is not to incarcerate individuals, but to get them treatment.
And we do have many jails that have treatment in the jail.
I know in in our area in Kenton County, we have really a national model of treatment in jails so that, you know, if an individual is involved in the criminal justice system, we still want to get them help.
But of course, the the objective is to help them before they're ever justice involved.
When the term diversion is used.
That's exactly what we're trying to get at.
Right.
It is you're diverting from jail, prison, whatever, to treatment.
So Senate Bill 90, what we're trying to do with mobile crisis, that kind of diversion, pre post arrest, that is to try to get folks getting out of the jails and into the health system.
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