BoldonLad
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
The USA's model remarkable in its ineffectiveness, I'd suggest.
Addicts are highly unlikely to respond to jail time. Whilst it's attractive, at least superficially, to put people away because we're protected, it's unsustainable. With addicts the best option is to rehabilitate - everyone wins that way, or to prevent, perhaps by using technology to constrain individuals without having them languish in jail, doing no good, and costing huge amounts of the public purse.
I would buy into that, and, not just for addicts. I would agree, Prison is an expensive way is an expensive way to keep them off the streets, so, if there is a cheaper and equally effective way to do it, fine by me. If some re-hab can be achieved as well, great that is a bonus.