NC Task Force Recommendations

Governor Pat McCrory welcomed recommendations from the Governor’s Task Force on Mental Health and Substance Use in a Drug Treatment Court in Fayetteville. North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Martin and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Rick Brajer, along with several Task Force members, presented Governor McCrory with a report documenting recommendations for improving the lives of youth and adults with mental illness and substance use disorders, and their families. The Drug Treatment Court supervises and assists chemically dependent, non-violent offenders with receiving treatment in a rehabilitative environment monitored by the court. Assigned treatment programs are designed to break the cycle of substance use and related crime. It is a post- arrest, post-sentencing program operated at the District Court level.