huddleston?st: your experience is very unlike with the vast majority of the almost 120,000 offenders go through each and every year in the almost 2700 drug courts in operation in this country. 75% of our graduates will never see another pair of handcuffs and the vast majority of drug dependent people get clean and sober and go on till the very productive lives. i appreciate the notion that we cannot force people into a drug- free lifestyle or recovery and it reminds me that you cannot lead a horse to water. -- you cannot lead a horse to water, but you cannot make them drink. you can make the horse thursday, which is what the drug court to do. we really give people enough treatment so that it actually takes hold in their soul and people began to see the benefits over time that sobriety is better than drug dependence. host: next up from salt lake city, utah, on our line for democrats. go ahead. caller: i would like to know why someone would want to go to drug court rather than taking a jail sentenc

and west huddleston, ceo of the national association of drug court professionals, explains how drug courtssed to the state and local levels to keep eligible drug of vessels out of prison. w.j." live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> the house of representatives has been off for eight weeks. did you get eight weeks of vacation this week? i did that. on her show, she tries to take a more irreverent view on washington and the u.s.. >> we're willing to step outside the box and try something different, to figure out how to make tv news exciting and entertaining and informative again, rather than the garbage that it is whittled down to be. >> she will talk about her network in her show sunday night. >> days, so security and medicare is to public trusties talk about their roles at the national press club in washington d.c. for the entitlement programs have six trustees, including the secretary of treasury, health, human services, and liver. this hourlong discussion was hosted by boston college at's center for retirement research. >> today we are extremely fortunate to have the current public tru

host: west huddleston is the ceo of national association of drug court professionals. nadcp.org is their website. thank you for being on the program. we want to tell our viewers and listeners what to expect on tomorrow's "washington journal." the former director of operations for the central intelligence agency will be here to talk about the administration's strategy to prevent violent extremism and homegrown terrorism in the united states. we will also be talking with patricia powell, ceo of the house financial group, talking about personal finance and what people should be doing with their savings, stocks, and retirement money. we will finish up with marvin and deborah kalb, talking about the vietnam legacy from ford to obama. i want to thank everyone who participated today and we will see you again tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> coming up, a senate hearing on health care costs since the passage of the 2010 law. after that, the players' labor unions dis