{"id":24514,"date":"2025-06-16T08:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24514"},"modified":"2025-06-16T08:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:50:34","slug":"veterans-treatment-court-helps-marine-turn-his-life-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24514","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Treatment Court helps Marine turn his life around"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being arrested for DUI, Marine Corps Veteran Taylor West was facing jail time when the court offered him an alternative: Veterans Treatment Court\u2014a structured program that would ultimately change his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court not only spared him time behind bars, but helped him get sober, reclaim his driver\u2019s license and better provide for his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat DUI is the best thing that ever happened to me. You think boot camp is hard\u2014that\u2019s the most strenuous program I\u2019ve ever been in,\u201d West said. \u201cThis was harder than jail time.\u201d  Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/140635\/veterans-treatment-court-helps-vet-turn-around\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/news.va.gov\/140635\/veterans-treatment-court-helps-vet-turn-around\/\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"418\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20064\" style=\"width:179px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs.png 418w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/VA-dept-of-vet-affairs-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; news.va.gov) After being arrested for DUI, Marine Corps Veteran Taylor West was facing jail time when the court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[494,60,7],"tags":[180,597,87,245,857],"class_list":["post-24514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ptsd","category-substance-abuse","category-veterans-benefits","tag-ptsd","tag-substance-abuse","tag-veterans","tag-veterans-health-care","tag-veterans-treatment-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24515,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514\/revisions\/24515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}