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Tag: Madison Area Recovery Initiative (MARI)

July 20, 2023 10:50 AM

This month we celebrate the efforts and work of those involved in reducing substance use disorder and seeking alternatives to arrest and incarceration. The National Deflection Week is an opportunity fo rthe Madison Police Department to highlight two Pathways to Recovery (PTR) grant programs … [read more]

October 22, 2020 1:24 PM

Madison Area Addiction Recovery Initiative The Madison Area Addiction Recovery Initiative (MAARI) is a Bureau of Justice Assistance initiative that seeks to refer persons who overdose or are stopped for low-level, victimless offenses and offer them a referral to medication-assisted and … [read more]

September 18, 2020 10:26 AM

The Madison Addiction Recovery Initiative (MARI) was a Grant funded program that ran from 2017 to 2020 at the Madison Police Department. The goal of the program was pre-arrest diversion, which means that we deflected people with eligible charges that are suffering from addiction away from the … [read more]

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