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Correctional Options, part 5
The Bradenton Drug Treatment Community (BDTC) subjects drug addicts to tough residential treatment, educational training and thorough supervision by treatment professionals. BDTC has received $2.47 million from the Bureau of Justice Assistance and is considered to be a drug treatment program model for young offenders. Its main focus is on offenders aged 16-24. It recognizes that the issues of employment, education and home environment need to be addressed aside from substance abuse treatment.See the full content of this document
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On a dusty, sun-bleached three acres of Southwest Florida real estate, Valentin Santiago Ill is trying very hard to find his brave new world. The 24-year-old native of New York began searching for this place when he was 13, but he didn't know it. What he did know--when he was sober enough to think at all--was that he did crack, ice, marijuana and booze nearly every day. He remembers stealing $5,000 from his mother to party and buy drugs. He remembers that the other kids at school thought he was quiet and withdrawn.
"They didn't know I was higher than anyone in school," says Santiago. Then Valentin found the Bradenton Drug Treatment Community (BDTC), not far from Florida's west coast. More accurately, the program found him. For the past six months, he has been at BDTC enduring long days and longer nights. He faces another year in the program's three phases of tough, relentless residential trea...See the full content of this document
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