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We design personalized treatment programs to provide each abuser with the greatest chance of a successful recovery outcome. Our comprehensive networking system works hand in hand with all of the drug treatment centers in Alabama. At Drug Rehab Alabama we know that each individual is unique and are treated as such. Deciding upon a treatment option in Alabama, or anywhere can be a daunting task for any individual or family, we will guide you through each step of a comprehensive treatment plan for you or your loved one. We are determined in our mission, that every drug and/or alcohol abuser in Alabama. that has a desire to change their life will be given a chance to recover from their addiction and we are dedicated to ensuring that they are given the opportunity to do so.
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Alabama: Requiem for IDEAAn ambitious Alabama Drug Enforcement Administration program that authorities hoped would transform some of Mobile, Alabama and Prichard's worst neighborhoods has essentially come and gone, lacking the staying power it was supposed to have.
With federal agents withdrawn as scheduled from the initiative -- dubbed Integrated Drug Enforcement Assistance, or IDEA -- local officials have been left to thank them for their efforts and contemplate why the plan didn't stick as solidly here as it has elsewhere.
"We didn't get the community involvement that we would like to have had," said Micah Miller, the DEA agent who administered the program locally. "But we did have involvement back when we were there and the door was open. Now, when we walked away, the door closed back up."
Authorities credit IDEA with locking up some of the area's biggest drug dealers and with establishing better interaction between police in the two cities. But they also admit that poor communication and budget constraints have hobbled the project, and that it could be years before they pursue some of the strategies it generated.
The comprehensive drug-reduction program was to incorporate beefed-up enforce ment efforts, an increased emphasis on rehabilitation and counseling and a broad effort to address the reasons people turn to drugs, factors such as poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and family problems.
"This is a historical event in Mobile County," Prichard Police Chief Sammie Brown said in December 2002 when federal officials announced the program for Mobile, Alabama and Prichard. "My heart is just jumping with joy."
Local politicians and police chiefs stood alongside then-DEA director Asa Hutchinson that day as he told a "drug summit" of some 300 area professionals and community activists at the Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile, Alabama Convention Center that Mobile, Alabama and Prichard would be IDEA's fifth site in the nation.
One of the program's defining traits, proponents said, was that instead of simply infusing federal money, it was designed to incorporate existing assets within the community, to help groups learn to cooperate more efficiently.
"We're in a support role," Hutchinson told the convention center crowd. "Any drug problems in this community are not gonna be solved by us, they're gonna be solved by you."
The DEA was to launch the program at the seminar, shepherd it for a year and then step back, leaving local authorities to maintain the momentum, as had happened to a large degree in some of the previous IDEA sites.
North Charleston, S.C., for instance, saw 330 drug arrests attributed to IDEA, and building inspectors there got together with National Guardsmen to demolish derelict structures, Hutchinson said.
"There was a school newspaper in the community who noticed that the students were complaining that drugs were not as easy to get," said Hutchinson, who introduced and championed IDEA during his brief tenure before moving to a top post with the Department of Homeland Security.
In contrast to cities like North Charleston, the IDEA steering committee for Mobile, Alabama and Prichard has stopped meeting altogether.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, told those at the December 2002 conference that it was a "tribute" to Mobile, Alabama and Prichard that they were chosen for the project, but it was a somewhat dubious distinction. To qualify, the cities had to show existing efforts to fight a drug infestation that could potentially overwhelm them if they didn't receive outside help.
That aid came early last year when a roving DEA enforce ment team from New Orleans made more than three dozen arrests of mid-level drug dealers here. Agents followed that sweep by breaking up the so-called Gorilla Records gang, which authorities said had been south Alabama's largest cocaine distribution ring for several years. Mobile, Alabama Police Chief Sam Cochran has attributed the city's sharp drop in homicides last year to IDEA and a separate federal firearms initiative.
"Those were some significant crooks that were targeted and convicted because of (the program). IDEA gave us the extra resources to identify and tackle some of these groups," said Sam Houston, resident agent in charge of the DEA's Mobile, Alabama office.
"The undercover portion of this project was huge," said Mobile, Alabama Public Safety Director Dick Cashdollar, the man most responsible for bringing IDEA here. "It broke up several violent and well-established drug trafficking rings working back and forth between Mobile, Alabama and Prichard."
Cashdollar said drug-related violence in the area should remain quiet for a while thanks to the IDEA arrests, adding that investigators expect to charge more people soon in connection with the earlier cases.
"The demand is still there," he conceded. "And I'm certain that others will move in to eventually fill the gap. But it will take them a long time to gear up to the levels of distribution that were disrupted by that operation."
IDEA organizers pointed to a handful of other achievements, including:
A $60,000 grant that the Drug Education Council landed from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a medical philanthropy. The grant, which has already concluded, paid for brochures advertising drug treatment options, and also for training sessions to help local medical professionals spot substance abusers and steer them toward treatment, according to Virginia Guy, the Council's executive director.
"Can I say it was a direct result? Probably not," Guy said of IDEA's role in obtaining the money. "But that coalition certainly strengthened our application for the grant."
A proposal formed by Cashdollar's office, the Drug Education Council and the Partnership for a Drug-Free Mobile, Alabama to have athletes in the Mobile County Public School System tested for illegal drugs. The U.S. Department of Education announced last summer that it would award $2 million in grants -- averaging nearly $300,000 each -- to a handful of school districts for drug testing. Local officials rushed to present a plan to the school board, having lined up a company to do the testing.
The school board rejected the proposal 3-2 in August, citing concerns about whether students should be tested before school employees are, among other issues.
"They didn't have enough time to really study it, and I don't blame them," said George Krietemeyer, director of the Partnership.
Baldwin County Public Schools officials are "very interested" in drug testing and could take preliminary steps to apply for federal money within a few months, Krietemeyer said, adding that he hopes the Mobile, Alabama board might embrace a modified proposal later this year.
"It's expensive -- lot of kids, costs a lot of money," he acknowledged. "But it's also very effective. It's a deterrent. Nobody wants to catch kids. But we want to deter them."
Increased dialogue between city officials in Mobile, Alabama and Prichard, particularly the police departments.
"It really opened up a door for communication between Mobile, Alabama and Prichard to sort of mutually solve some of the problems that confront both communities," said Houston, the DEA supervisor.
"I think Prichard PD and Mobile, Alabama PD are talking together a little better than they were before the project," Cashdollar offered.
Yet among the unfulfilled suggestions to rise out of the IDEA summit and subsequent meetings was for Mobile, Alabama police to train their Prichard counterparts on community-oriented policing, a popular approach involving officers interacting with neighborhood groups and business owners. Prichard officials expressed interest in the training at some IDEA sessions, but they have yet to accept it, Cashdollar acknowledged.
"That offer was placed on the table between Mobile, Alabama and Prichard, and it is still on the table," he said. "I know that the two PDs are anxious and willing to work together on that. ... We're waiting to hear from Prichard."
Moreover, Cashdollar con ceded that Prichard officials have yet to take him up on his offer to have Mobile's full-time grant writer assist them in applying for funds.
Neither Prichard's Chief Brown nor Mobile's Chief Cochran returned phone calls seeking comment.
In another IDEA notion left undone, both men publicly agreed to Hutchinson's challenge at the drug summit to commit 15 percent of their drug forfeiture funds to "demand reduction" efforts, namely treatment and education programs.
Figures provided to the Mobile, Alabama Register, however, show that while the Mobile, Alabama Police Department spent more than $20,000 on demand reduction -- almost all of it on its Police Explorers and other youth programs -- that still amounted to less than 5 percent of its 2004 forfeiture fund expenditures.
Prichard's only expenditures from its meager forfeiture funds in fiscal year 2004 were a little less than $400 to fix the air conditioning and a tire on one of its patrol cars, along with about $100 in service charges to the department's three accounts, according to Cindy Norwood, the city's finance director. The department's forfeiture assets totaled about $1,100 as of September, Norwood said.
Mobile's Major David Wilhelm said Hutchinson's request came at a time when police departments have been forced to do more with less, noting the 31.4 percent decline in his agency's funding from the city over the past three years.
"We use those (drug) moneys to provide exactly what they were intended to, which is equipment, training, that sort of thing," he said of the forfeited drug proceeds.
Without the DEA's continued involvement, Cashdollar said, cash shortages have stripped IDEA of much of its potential, at least for now.
"Money makes the world go round," he said, "and without some additional resources above and beyond what can we provide locally, a lot of those things we talked about are gonna have to wait until those days in the future when the economy's a little better and we have more discretionary dollars to put towards them."
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