Alcohol Quote by David Gauke

Violent felons and people with mental health problems need to be rehabilitated.

— Thom Tillis

Very few alcoholics get into a treatment program until they are at the end of the rope, often when they feel like they are…

— Gary Chapman

Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically.

— Ash Sarkar

“Alcoholics Anonymous was proclaimed the correct treatment for alcoholism over seventy-five years ago despite the absence of any scientific evidence of the approach’s efficacy,…

— Lance Dodes

“Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.”

— Chris Prentiss

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three…

— Janet Reno

“A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been a hell…

— Piper Kerman

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs,…

— Bobby Scott

I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for…

— Mike DeWine

I had two experiences. I had a wonderful experience in rehab, and I had a terrible experience in rehab. But, to be honest, in…

— Elizabeth Vargas

“A lengthy term of community service working with addicts on the outside would probably have driven the same truth home and been a hell…

— Piper Kerman

Punishment by definition isn't going to help. So what you need to do is to help people to change and recover is to help…

— Maia Szalavitz