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Michelle Thomason has seen 150 veterans approach her courtroom within the past year, but none with a more powerful story than the drug addict who faced a life or death situation.
The veteran, a soldier once stationed in Afghanistan, was shopping narcotics, buying pills on the black market and creating toxic drug cocktails, Thomason said.
“He came into the program in April and May, had some failures and had to start and stop rehab,” Thomason, a district judge in Baldwin County for the past nine years, said. “The last residential program (the veteran entered into) absolutely worked. He’s been clean and sober since September.”
It’s one success story that Thomason, the founder of Baldwin County’s veterans’ court, likes to tell and embraces as the fledgling program approaches its first anniversary.
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