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Drug Rehab Instead of Incarceration

THE UNITED STATES FAILED WAR ON DRUGS ONE TRILLION DOLLARS After 4 decades, the US has spent $1 trillion dollars on a war that has done little to halt the flow of drugs into the country, yet has increased in taxpayer costs year after year. $1000000000000 $16B 15.3 - $15B 13.8 $14B $13B $12B $11B 9.8 $10B $9B 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 PRISON POPULATION Of the 2.3 million inmates in the US, more than half have a history of substance abuse and addiction. A rehabilitation program saved my life in 1995. That program was state funded at the time. Shortly after Bush took office, the program I attended closed it's doors. I truly believe had I not done 30 days in rehab, prison would have been a part of my future. 280,000 31,500 108,000 211,455 1,395,916 171,161 FEDERAL (4/200) CALIFORNIA STATE (6/2007) (12/2008 Not all those inmates are imprisoned on drug- related charges (although drug arrests have been rising steadily since the early 1990s; there were 195,700 arrests in 2007). But in many cases, their crimes, such as burglary, have been committed in the service of feeding their addictions. ALL CRIMES DRUG RELATED PRISON POPULATION PER 100,000 (2009) 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 80 By refusing or neglecting to provide treatment to these addicts, many U.S. prisons are missing the best chance to cure them-and in the process to cut down on future crime. Treatment can reduce recidivism rates from 50 percent to approximately 20 percent, according to the DEA. USA RUSSIA RWANDA ISRAEL IRAN Richard Nixon coined the phrase "The War On Drugs" in 1971. The first anti-drug budget was MEXICO The cost of getting an addict through rehab is roughly 25% the cost of keeping them in prison. $26,000 for prison, $6,000 for rehab. ENGLAND/WALES $26K AUSTRALIA $100 MILLION CHINA Adjusted for inflation, the expenditure on the Drug War has grown CANADA FRANCE 31x VENEZUELA $6K JAPAN INDIA PORTUGAL WINNING WAR ON DRUGS $O In July of 2001, Portugal de-criminalized posession and use of illegal drugs, instead focusing on treatment and prevention, which in turn led to reductions in student drug use, prison overcrowding, overdoses, and spread of HIV/AIDS. DRUG INDUCED DEATHS IN PORTUGAL HIV CASES 400 1400 66% reduction in court cases 350 3001 20% increase in treatment 250 200 150 100 400 50 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2000 2006 | 2001 2011 After 10 years, Portugal has reported a 20 percent increase in drug treatment and a 66 percent reduction in drug-related court cases. Decriminalization in favor of treatment did not produce a surge in drug use, which some predicted. 0.9% PORTUGAL NOW HAS THE LOWEST DRUG USE RATE OF ANY WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY. IN THAT TIME, DRUG USE FROM 2001-2011, THE NUMBER OF ADDICTS IN REHAB ROSE 400% HAS FALLEN TO ALL TIME LOWS 6.1% UK 4.6% ITALY 3.2% GERMANY

Drug Rehab Instead of Incarceration

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While billions of dollars have been spent on our country’s war on drugs, the number of those incarcerated for drug related charges continues to rise in both state and federal prisons.

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