ABSTRACT
With the country's correctional institutions awash with drug offenders, the treatment of such persons during their period of custody is opportune, cost-effective and likely to be successful with the use of research-tested technologies for human change. This paper presents the overall scope of the problem; the relationship between drugs and crime; the history of treating drug-using−offenders including national efforts in the past decade; efforts afoot in the Federal Correctional Options Program and the Bureau of prisons; describes efforts in a number of states, and highlights important successful treatment results from California, Florida, Texas, New York, Oregon, and Delaware.