Drug Addiction
In Washington State budget cuts are all but going to make prosecution of illegal drugs harder. When there is no prosecution it makes drug addiction treatment centers fight even harder.
Many people that are addicted to drugs end up in jail for a simple possession charge, many times this leads the drug addict to a realization that they are actually addicted and need to find help.
Under the results of what managers called a “10 percent budget cut exercise,” six lab workers around the state would be laid off and the state lab would no longer analyze controlled substances like cocaine in cases of simple possession.
