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The premise of this book is to address the substantial number of people who enter the criminal justice system, accompanied by alcohol or substance abuse issues. Offering alternative and supplemental help impart value as it seeks to improve intervention, treatment, and prevention to the return to violence and personal harm. Interceding with individuals at this step in the process, allows them to consider continued professional assistance to their addiction, and to refrain from criminality and seek out a more productive and fulfilling life. The added interjection by police and others in the criminal justice system substantially increases the potential for drug elimination to an addicted person. It takes place at an opportune time and serves a legitimate purpose. The intent of this book is to examine entry points for intervention and assistance to people entering or within the criminal justice system. This early intervention step begins with controlled implementation and seeks to engage the individual in a pathway forward that does not include drugs. The authors explore the opportunity, strategy, and models of intervention that bring promise to reducing substance abuse.

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Gary J. Metz received his masters' degrees in health science and public administration from the College at Brockport and is a nationally recognized master addictions counselor. Metz has over forty years of experience in the addictions profession as an administrator, counselor, and educator. Professor Metz serves as a Regional Statewide Employee Assistance Program Coordinator, New York State Employee Assistance Program. Before joining the Health Science Department, he served as the Associate Director of the State of New York's Governor's Task Force on Alcoholism Treatment and Criminal Justice, a multi-state agency initiative for addressing the substance abuse needs of the criminal justice and addictions treatment systems. He has also served as a consultant and director on numerous national and international grants that provide substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment programming to rural counties in upstate New York State as well as South America, Near- and South- East Asia and Russia. Mr. Metz is a certified and active police officer with the Orleans County Office of the Sheriff, Criminal Division/Marine Unit. His unique experience provides insight into how the criminal justice, employee assistance, and addictions treatment systems could provide a more coordinated, systematic and practical approach to intervention and treatment for not only the criminal justice population but also the police officer and their family.

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