Why shouldn't drug rehab be free?

1. opiates are impossible to wuit.
2. might as well dispense maintenance doses to addicts, and make them buy them at a low price. But they gotta take the dose on site so they can't stockpile the drugs.

Opiate addicts are zombies and unable to control their cravings. Never take an opiate. It will destroy your soul forever.

>>127995457
Not even ausbro.

>>127995211
Sure buddy. Here's the deal. You get free rehab, but until your 60 you have to work 40 hours a week for free.
You expect others to do it, so you have to do your part, comrade. Not such a good idea now, is it?

>>127996495
I don't get what you are trying to say.

Do you really think you aren't already paying out the ass for the jail and prison time, courts, welfare, child services and foster care, ridiculous federal drug enforcement resources, and unnecessarily high healthcare costs?

>>127995211
bump

>>127996495
Also, don't forget the billions in lost productivity and a general harm to society and safety.

>>127995211
Just kill them all

>>127997387
Of course but your solution might not even be more cost effective. Most addicts can't change fundamentally. You'd still have people in prison, this would just potentially reduce the number. To know how much we'd need data on the success of rehab.

>>127998931
It costs over $50k a year to house prisoners. That is over $150B alone. Reducing "some" and by putting them in rehab could add up to a huge amount when you consider the beneficial cascading effects I described above.

Let's say it doesn't save a penny. Let's say it even costs 1% of tax revenue. Are you really saying that you're not even remotely open to trying it for 10 years?

In the US we've got one of the biggest and most expensive (if not the most) prison systems in the world. We've also got the biggest demand for illegal drugs on the world, and it is getting worse despite creating entire federal departments to combat it. Is this really the best solution possible?

>>128000315
Drug courts have already had good success.

https://www.nij.gov/topics/courts/drug-courts/Pages/work.aspx

If you've already gotten in the court system you're chances of recovery are probably lower than those who are able to stop before getting to that point.

The war on drugs blue pill is clearly getting exposed based on basic logic and facts.