Alcohol and drug abuse are significant factors in crimes committed against persons and property. In fact, in a recent study, the U.S. Department of Justice Report on Alcohol and Crime identified alcohol abuse as a factor in 40% of violent crimes committed in the U.S. Add in drug-abuse and the numbers grow larger yet. A large percent of U.S. inmates have an admitted drug or alcohol dependency. More than four in ten offenders nationwide return to state prison within three years of their release.  This cycling of offenders in, out and back into jail has resulted in a massive increase in state spending on prisons.

Too many programs in use today only focus on impacting the offender while they are on the program and do little to change long term behavior.  Evidence based 24/7 Sobriety Programs have been proven to both impact an offender’s behavior while on the program and change their behavior, reducing criminal recidivism, years after they have graduated from the program.  The power of evidence based 24/7 programs is that they, by themselves or in consort with treatment, at a low or no cost to the taxpayer, can change people’s lives.

Immediate Consequences and Lasting Effects is the mantra of the 24/7 program. The data from participants that have been through an evidence based 24/7 program indicate that this program is breaking the cycle of criminal behavior. Programs that have utilized testing methodologies where a strong relationship is built between the participant and the tester and other participants, where there is frequent and immediate positive feedback for compliant events and where there is an immediate measured sanction for non-compliant behavior, have proven to produce these breakthrough results.    Real results, based on program data, are driving the evolution of this program.