Accreditation Key to Creating the Next Generation of Drug Courts [USA] Join Together, 9 Sep 2004

http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/features/reader/0%2C1854%2C574553%2C00.html
John Roman
"Controversy continues about the effectiveness of drug courts. In the midst if this debate, and faced with limited funding, drug courts are caught in a vicious cycle pitting self-promotion against the need for rigorous research that will lead to better interventions. While it is fair to denounce the lamentable state of drug-court research, criticisms of drug court self-promotion serve no purpose. A better approach is to free drug courts from the burdens of research while at the same time providing an objective means of measuring their effectiveness. The solution: accreditation."