• About your sentence:

The Court has sentenced you to either a Suspended Sentence Order or a Community Order with one requirement being the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement (DRR). Esentially the Court have decided that you have a problem with drug use, and that you need help in dealing with this issue. You have agreed prior to sentence to undertake this treatment. An assessment would have been conducted prior to assessment to discover the level ad intensity of treatment that you will receive.

This treatment could last from between 6 - 18 months (low - high intensity), and will involve counselling, substituter prescribing, drug testing, attending a day centre and working with other agencies. In high intensity treatment it could also include attendance to a drug related accredited programme (ASRO or OSAP).

• Your 'Responsible Officer' will:

• Explain your sentence to you and make it clear that you must attend the Drug specialists for treatment and testing
• Explain what will happen to you if you fail to adhere to this requirement or avoid attending the treatment programme
• Review your progress and assist you in completing the sentence sucessfully. this will also include appearances before the Court in relation to your progress.
• Treat you fairly and with respect

• What you should do:

• Adhere to the required treatment plan
• Make sure that you understand what is expected of you, and ask questions if you do not know
• Demonstrate respect to those Probation staff you come into contact with, and others you meet during your sentence.
• Inform Probation staff if there are changes to your circumstances; i.e. your address of telephone number.
• If you are having problems with your sentence tell the Probation Staff.
• Let your responsible officer visit you at home if they need to

• If you are taken back to Court, the Court may:

• Make you do more requirements.
• Make you do different requirements
• Make this requirement or other requirements you are already doing more onerous.
• Send you to prison

• Additional information

If unless you have been told otherwise, the Court will want to review the progress you are making with your DRR - this will involve you attending a Court hearing. The Court will inquire about your progress and will have written reports to review. the reports will include the results of drug testing and the views of those administering the treatment.

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