A new collaboration to help the addicted

Oconee Sheriff’s Office and Christ Central Ministries are in talks to start a new program that’ll allow some drug or alcohol addicted individuals to avoid jail and send them straight into the 30-day rehabilitation program of “OARS” – Oconee Addiction and Recovery and Solutions.  It could start as early as October 1.  For varied reasons, Sheriff Crenshaw approves – considering his position to channel addicted individuals into rehabilitation and to lessen the strain on the county jail whose inmate numbers of late have been running in excess of 200 a day.  Ashley Williams of Christ Central Ministries made the announcement at last week’s meeting of the Oconee County Council.