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First Graduates of Knox County's Drug Court
They say when you graduate high school that "today is the first day of the rest of your life." For two Knox County residents who've graduated from a different program, the same could be said.

Two local residents graduated from the county's relatively-new "Drug Court" program yesterday. In existence statewide for a long time but here for only three years, the program gives what are described as non-violent offenders the chance to go through counseling and other things and avoid jail time.

Knox County Administrative Judge Scott Shiplett told a ceremony yesterday just because the two are done with drug court, that doesn't mean things are over.

"They have to live drug court, often five to seven days a week, they have to live with their addictions, they have to live with their cravings, they have to worry about the associations they have before they came to drug court, they have to worry about their meeitng schedules and what might trigger them to relapse and we have a support structure in place for them to try and help them through that."

Shiplett says the two graduates, whom we were asked not to publicly identify, will work with the nearly dozen participants still in the Drug Court program to help get them through it.

We can tell you of the two graduates, one is male and one is female. Both said they've been addicted to alcohol, while one said she's also been addicted to drugs.
01 26 11 by Newsroom
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