It is not surprising this man could be so in the grips of addiction that he would rob a bank. What is most interesting about this article is the sentence “He blamed the crime on his illegal addiction to prescription drugs.” Addiction is addiction whether it is legal or illegal. If he had been legally [...]
We must step up our efforts at drug education, but what about those youth who have fallen into the trap of abuse and have already gotten in trouble with the law? What are we to do with them? We are after all, as a society, responsible for the temptations that we are allowing at every [...]
There probably has never been a study regarding the statistics of addiction treatment versus incarceration that did not show that drug treatment is less expensive and more effective than incarceration. This study shows that heroin and crack-cocaine addicts commit fewer crimes after receiving treatment, but the same is probably true for those who abuse methamphetamine [...]
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