Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts (JDTCs) are designed to reduce offending and substance use among youth populations. This case study represents Louisiana’s translation of federal guidelines into best practices to address substance abuse and delinquency among youth served by the state’s JDTCs. Preliminary results from this implementation indicate positive outcomes for juvenile populations in JDTCs, including improvement in the rate of incentives to sanctions, increase in community service as a sanction, decrease in juvenile detention, and decreased length of time from start to successful program completion. As one of the first states to generate statewide standards from national guidelines, this model offers a framework for replication.

少年毒品治疗法院（JDTC）旨在减少年轻人口中的犯罪和吸毒现象。此案例研究代表路易斯安那州将联邦指南转化为最佳实践，以解决该州JDTC所服务的年轻人中的药物滥用和违法行为。实施的初步结果表明，JDTC中的少年人口取得了积极成果，包括制裁诱因的提高，作为制裁的社区服务的增加，少年拘留的减少以及从开始到成功完成计划的时间缩短。作为最早根据国家准则生成全州标准的州之一，该模型提供了复制框架。