Adult drug courts provide access to treatment for substance-abusing offenders in criminal, dependency, and family courts while minimizing the use of incarceration. They provide a structure for linking supervision and treatment with ongoing judicial oversight and team management.
Environment variable. Environment variables are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. They are part of the environment in which a process runs. For example, a running process can query the value of the TEMP environment variable to discover a suitable location to store temporary files, or the HOME or USERPROFILE variable to find the directory structure owned by the user running the process.
An environmental variable that (a) alters (increases or decreases) the reinforcing effectiveness of some stimulus, object or event; and (b) alters (increases or decreases) the current frequency of all behavior that have been reinforced by that stimulus, object or event.