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The Northeast Tennessee Regional Recovery Center and First Judicial Felony Recovery Court will have its regional spring graduation ceremony Wednesday, March 19, for its recent graduates. The ceremony, hosted by families of the graduates, will be held at 6 p.m. at TCAT Elizabethton, 426 Highway 19E in Elizabethton. A reception will follow.

An adult drug court is a specially designed court calendar—or docket—with a goal to achieve a reduction in recidivism and substance abuse among drug-involved adult offenders in the community. An adult drug court seeks to increase the offender’s likelihood of successful recovery through continuous, intense judicially supervised treatment, mandatory periodic drug testing, community supervision, and use of appropriate sanctions and other rehabilitation services.