DrugR » worldwide http://drugr.org Fighting a war on the war on drugs. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:00:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Reason #345 http://drugr.org/2009/10/21/reason-345/ http://drugr.org/2009/10/21/reason-345/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:34:35 +0000 tenchinage http://drugr.org/?p=23 For why drug addiction should be framed as a health issue, not a criminal one.

Cost of controversial new treatment for long term heroin addicts in the UK, that seems to be achieving results not only in reduction of crime (66%) but in changing addicts’ attitude towards their addiction? $22,000 per year US (that’s $29, 089 NZ).

Average cost of imprisonment in New Zealand? $90,977 per year.

These heroin studies are being undertaken in other countries, with similar results.

Compare and contrast.

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