While drug reformers see drug courts as preferable to prison, the courts do have critics. It remains to be seen if the drug courts’ capacity and criteria can handle what…

In the past, prosecutors alone got to choose which defendants would be eligible to participate in drug court. Now judges have that power in a wide swath of cases.

Like riding mowers or line dancing, meth—whether called “ice,” “tina,” “crank” or any of its dozen other names—has never really caught on in New York City.