ta2drvn
Well-Known Member
but i dont want my taxes and medical cost for disease and recovery what costs less prison or those expences.
remember we pay for every bodyies medical here.
i dont know but i have worked in recovery places and some of them just use it as a place to crash and get healthy and then go out and use again...repeatedly and that costs us a fortune. not to mention all the aids and everthing else that goes with it and a disgusting looking city.
You must not be taking into consideration that 'those' people you are talking about maybe spend 30-90 days at a time in rehab and during that time they are taught living skills and technics for dealing with problems, they might not wanna hear it but they do hear it and know a place to come when they are truly ready to clean up. Most true addict find the bottoms are not something they want to continue with and actually do want some help just don't typically know how. Those that don't want to or haven't hit their bottom can still go to jail for actual crimes (burglary, theft, rape, murder, DUI, ect) I'm sure there would be plenty of room to actually serve some of the time give to them for REAL crimes!
Now these same folks if just 'locked-up' will usually spend more time than 90 days in prison, so even if the cost to incarcerate are the same (which they are not, it's more for prisons than treatment been studied and proven) we would experience a cost savings on any short timer but how about all the minimum term sentences for drug offenses most start at what 3-5 years so that's what 12-20 visits to rehab before it starts getting to be more expensive to 'treat' instead of 'locking-up' addicts. How about those that get out and violated for a minor drug offense again (you know, the addicts, just because they serve time doesn't mean they learn how to stop using once they get out) and have to serve more time again.
Sure the current system works, wouldn't want to change the way things are done now would we?