Exploring the opportunities of Proposition 36

This article must be considered a work-in-progress. The California Society of Addiction Medicine seeks to briefly enumerate some guiding principles for initial consideration. It is the Society's hope that the issues presented here can promote further discussion and planning in collaboration with our colleagues in the criminal justice system, the community of California treatment providers, and other social service agencies, and in future consultations with experts at the National Institutes of Health and other relevant research and treatment agencies in California, Washington, and elsewhere.