Do you have grounds for appeal as a mandated drug court treatment client?

“Substance abuse treatment focuses on negative beliefs about self and facilitating or permission-granting beliefs about substance abuse” said Judy Beck, a Cognitive Theory expert.

For the drug court substance abuse treatment programs, I would add ‘permission-granting beliefs about AOD/alcohol and other drugs abuse and criminal thinking and conduct/CTC.

As most drug courts have been abstinence based, this would include limiting beliefs and values about any use of any mind-altering substance while in treatment.

If specific belief change work was not done for and with the client, it could be grounds for appeal. One might question if it is also malpractice.

NADCP, The National Association of Drug Court Professionals, addresses medically assisted treatment, MAT, and provides webinar training at the time of this writing that could be useful to the reader. NADCP has great online courses.

A CBT map image (p.15) explains the whole process. It is from Drug Court Treatment: The Verdict, Amazon.com

Attorneys, jurists and clinicians should be aware of the CBT process illustrated by that image. The image is shown, described and illustrated in the CLE classes for judges, attorneys and therapists’ CEU classes. Click on classes, above, to get started now.

Do you need help with alcohol or other drug problems? Call me now at 808 385 4550. It confidential.

Help with substance abuse treatment and criminal thinking and conduct is addressed at length in this program. The goals of drug courts are to reduce recidivism and lower the cost of treatment and crime.

Why do so many clients fail in mandated programs? Does this create grounds for appeal?

Do you need CLEs? If so, you now have a choice:

1. a Zoom meeting with me for your law firm.

2. A bar association group Zoom meeting.

3.A private one-on-one Zoom meeting with me.

The choice is yours. Pick one. You may simply choose to do the class online at your own pace.

Not your ordinary CLE. Participants will understand why clients and offenders fail in mandated treatment. Has the drug court treatment promise been broken? If so, how has it been broken? Is it as simple as E&O?

The Sine qua non, of SUD treatment. There will be no long-term behavior changes if this is not done first. You will learn what that is in my CLE class.

You will understand why Substance Use Disorder, SUD is more common among the legal profession than general public.

It’s simple. The same things that hold back mandated clients limit all of us. You will be able to recognize these issues. Help with drugs, alcohol and addiction is available here, with me, for you as well.

More important, you will understand how these all work and be able to change them working together.

Making it rain. To be extraordinary is to be free of restraints of the past. See how to get past issues that limit professional excellence. We already have the strengths and resources to resolve our issues according to Carl Rogers.

Here’s how to make it rain in the criminal justice and addictions (Drug Court) field, click on classes.

Or,You can call me now at 808 385 4550 if you have questions or would like to schedule a Zoom meeting for yourself or your firm. California State Bar Association Approved Provider #19867

” In the legal context, a rainmaker can be a lawyer who brings many clients to a law firm. In other words, a rainmaker is a lawyer who generates a large amount of business for a law firm usually through wide contacts within the business community” according to uslegal.com. Click on classes on the home page for rain maker ideas and MCLE.

It is good to be a rainmaker. Here’s how to make it rain in the criminal justice and addictions (Drug Court) field, click on classes. Learn why drug court and other mandated clients fail in the program. This could be good grounds for appeals and good verdicts to come.

Alcohol, drug and other addictions treatment ideas are included in this program. Substance Use Disorder treatment should have specific goals for behavior change. Errors and omissions: mistakes are common or there would not be insurance to cover the risks involved.

You can call me at 808 385 4550 if you have questions or would like to schedule a Zoom meeting for yourself or your firm. A flat rate is available for your firm to cover all professionals who need CLE.

“Judges’ and Attorneys’ Drug Court Desk Reference” has been approved for MCLE in California. It’s listed as Provider #19867, Program #159959. Keeping the Drug Court Promise is sacrosanct. It gives Hope to offenders and perhaps underserved participants. Effective drug courts can offer improved public safety for their communities too.

Additionally, successful drug court programs help keep non-violent offenders at home with their families rather than in prison. They can earn money to support families rather than cost states up to $81,000.00 per year for incarceration.

Public Defenders, the Defense Bar, probation and parole as well as all drug court professionals can benefit from this MCLE program. It will serve the entire mandated criminal justice system. Go to standokmanus.com, Click on classes to buy your copy now.

Law Firms can buy this for every attorney on staff needing MCLE. You can call me for a preferred rate based on quantity needed. Ph: 808 385 4550.

The “No A; therefore No B Defense” could win many good verdicts and appeals. Find out how with this MCLE program.

January 26, 2021Stan DokmanusUpdates

If there’s a wrong; you fight it. If you don’t you become a part of it. That ain’t so hard to understand, is it?” The Virginian.

We’ve seen and heard for decades that the War of Drugs has failed. This is not true. First, it’s a misnomer. It should be the War on Criminal Thinking and Conduct (CTC) involving Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD).

The AOD/CTC Cycle can be broken. However, if you always do what you have always done and all that insanity, you will keep getting the same results; over-crowded, racially skewed prisons and populations.

People scream about over-population of prisons and racial injustice regarding arrests, convictions and incarcerations. They should. These are the facts.

President Biden announced that he has instructed DOJ not to renew prison for profit contracts. This could be a first step. At least for this administration.

But that is not the way to reduce the real problem: crime. It is not the way to reduce addiction either. See If A Then B explanation below.

Diversion courts – drugs courts have been working on these problems for years. There are many drug court models. There are many people too in the drug court kitchen working on this recipe.

You know what happens to recipes as they are passed on to friends and relatives. If you skip basic ingredients and cooking time you know what will happen. That’s awful! Yuck! What happened?

When the recipe is passed on a few too many times the basic ingredients get deleted or forgotten. Momma’s Pork and Peas in L.A. are way different than Momma’s Pork and Peas in Phoenix, Chicago, New York, or, D.C.

A recipe is, if you use this and do that you get this. It’s the same with addiction, crime, legal representation, drug court, incarceration, prison, re-entry, relapse and recidivism.

A great recipe or approach to addiction, crime, drug court, treatment and prison reform is: If A, then B. It’s that simple.

If A, Then B. No A, therefore, No B. It’s a great defense strategy for public defenders and defense attorneys.

The therefore No B defense strategy information is available by clicking the ‘classes’ button: Judge’s and Attorney’s Drug Court Desk Reference. Some supervisors make it mandatory reading for staff.

These same facts and strategies apply to you if you are looking for help with alcohol or other drug problems. Why not buy it now?

34 NAADAC Approved CEU, $145.00. Provider# 192679. Employment Application for Agency Trainer-Coach.

Content/Purpose: Counselors, Drug Court Clinicians, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and other professionals will understand and be able explain how to help clients see, hear and feel the Cognitive Behavior Theory (CBT) solutions more clearly, using augmented reality skills and resources clients already have (VAK) to change beliefs, values, attitudes and behavior. Clinicians will understand how this can be used for self-care too. Click on classes. standokmanus.com.

Self-defeating, out dated trial strategies can be costly in several ways. That leaves little in the way of pros. Because due process, time and money are involved, sticking to “Old You” strategies are costly. 

What would be the disadvantages of switching to updated best practices, that are really evidence based if it helped win more cases and appeals? Informed public defenders and defense attorneys will appreciate these new and useful ideas. 

Change is inevitable in every field. When you picture winning more cases, the real advantages to your clients and you, the choice will be easy. 

Stan is a Certified Criminal Justice and Addictions Professional with 14 years-experience working with drug court, mandated participants, attorneys, judges, drug court case managers, counselors and therapists. He knows the pros and shares the cons: why drug court clients fail during or after treatment. Employing him as an Expert Witness will benefit your clients and you. You can call him now at 808 385 4550, Maui, HST.

JUDGE’S and ATTORNEY’S DRUG COURT DESK REFERENCE:
CBT INFORMED CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND ADDICTIONS COUNSELING
With Rapport, Communication and Transformational CBT Work© See Classes above.

Most people are looking for happiness and success. These can mean different things to different people. 

Attorneys may look at success as graduating law school, passing the bar exam, becoming  successful in the field of your choice of the law and, hopefully, making a lot of money. However, even after meeting these goals, up to 20% of attorneys develop a  drug and/or alcohol problem.

This is a much higher rate than the general population. Okay. Maybe you aren’t an attorney. But you still want to be happy and successful.

You may remember the times when you said, “It’ll be better when I… or when this happens, etc. Right? Then, no matter what your field or occupation, something happened.

Somehow – you became very fond of, alcohol, weed, cocaine, etc. Maybe you were already on the path to substance use disorder (SUD) when you were 12, 14 or 16 years of age.

Maybe old, funny, Uncle Joe gave you a snort when you were eight years old and your brain said, “Wow! I want more.”

You’re not alone. Billions of people have been or are hooked on something as you read this. There are as many paths to SUD as there are people on that path.

“But how could this happen to me?” you ask in amazement. Me too.That’s right. I too was hooked but found my way out of the trap. I got “unstuck.”

That made me very happy and I did become more successful. I was then able to set and achieve goals that eluded me in the past.

 Now I’m here to share how I did that with all of you. Fortunately, we learn most of what we know by observation. If one person can do something, other people can learn to do that same behavior by modeling the role model. 

Will I play golf as well as Tiger Woods if I model his swing? Probably not. But – I could play better if I did what he does. As you follow me through these ways to be happy and successful being sober, you will get a step by step game plan that could work for you too. If you want to see more or read what I’ve previously posted, feel free. Or, you can go to my https://www.patreon.com/standokmanus site. One on one coaching is available if you like.

If you are ordered to be in a drug court or treatment program you can benefit by knowing a little more about how that system works. This is true for attorneys too that may be looking for a defense appeal against termination.

Criminal Justice and Addictions.

Attorneys will have the opportunity explore what happens among the huge drug court wrap-around services program. There are quite a few people involved. Each has a different reality.

Drug court is not the usual adversarial paradigm where the defense and prosecution vigorously practice their professions. This has a different outcome for the drug court participant.

There is a better way.

Should drug court participants who clearly violate the contract be terminated? Or, are there valid, logical, reasons why that happened; why they may need a different, maybe higher level of care?

Was it the participant’s act that caused the breach of contract? Is there a meta factor involved here? Could omissions play a role?

You can learn more about this at standokmanus.com

You can call me now at 808 385 4550 for defense or treatment ideas.

What is the IFF Drug Court Defense?

Criminal Defense Attorneys and Public Defenders do their work to help others while enjoying personal and professional satisfaction with their work. Of course, the financial rewards are appealing too.

The IFF Defense will help clients achieve their drug court goals while attorneys accomplish their professional goals. IFF is “if and only if” and it is what criminal justice and addictions counseling and drug court are all about.

There are certain implied benefits accruing to those who choose to participate in drug court. Things happen though. Too frequently drug court participants get jammed up, violate the contract and face forced termination.

My program will help satisfy the court, the client and the people. You can learn more about this if you are interested. See more about this important tool to see how it will help you at standokmanus.com.

Feel free to call me at 808 385 4550.