Drug and Alcohol Assessments
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Our drug and alcohol reports provide the court with detailed information about your client's history of alcohol and drug use, which is essential for judges to make informed decisions about appropriate sentencing, treatment, or rehabilitation options. Alongside our DSM IV assessment, we include details about:
With the recent defunding of s27 reports, our AoD reports also include insights into clients' personal, family, whānau, community, and cultural backgrounds in their drug and alcohol assessments. |
Given the clear direction in s 8(i) that an offender’s personal, family, whānau, community, and cultural background, in imposing a sentence or other means of dealing with the offender with a partly or wholly rehabilitative purpose, must be taken into account, and given that most sentences have an element of rehabilitation to them, it is incumbent upon lawyers to look for creative solutions to bring this information to the attention of the sentencing judge.
- David Harvey, retired District Court judge and a member of Sangro Chambers