Cabinet paper: Future of the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court [pdf, 2 MB]
...and the judiciary have identified potential areas to reduce costs and improve the effectiveness of the AODT Court. Moving out of the pilot phase into a longer-term funding arrangement will allow for consideration of what the optimal model, including resourcing, should look like. Drug testing 30. Approximately 16% of the overall cost of the AODT Court (one-third of Ministry of Health funding) is for drug testing. Officials consider that the current standard for analysis of urine samples is e...