The Creation of the Opioid Intervention Court
By Christina van Vonno, CFCC Student Fellow (2019-2020) Since 2017, more than 70,200 Americans died from a drug overdose, and more than two-thirds of these deaths involved opioids. Most people, when seeing these statistics, do not stop and realize that these individuals were fathers, mothers, brothers, or sisters, leaving behind loved ones who have to…