New Carson City court program aims to help young addicts.

There may be a new alternative to jail for young misdemeanor offenders in Carson City.Judge Thomas Armstrong enacted a new misdemeanor treatment court Thursday, a program which will try to help provide offenders with addiction treatment at the misdemeanor level. “When I am on the (misdemeanor) bench I see so many people who are in trouble, particularly young people with serious addiction issues,” Armstrong said. “When I first started it was a lot of opium/heroin addicts who were 18, 19, 2