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A 3 page argument that partial reallocation of the funds that are customarily used in the law enforcement/criminal justice arenas to apprehend and imprison drug and alcohol abusers for their transgressions is necessary. These funds could be no more appropriately used than through well designed and implemented drug and alcohol treatment programs.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPdrgFnd.rtf
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Better funded drug and alcohol
treatment programs are imperative in a number of societal regards. Unfortunately, these programs are dramatically underfunded. The intent of this paper is to argue that a greater benefit
would be obtained through a partial reallocation of the funds that are customarily used in the law enforcement/criminal justice arenas to apprehend and imprison drug and alcohol abusers for their
transgressions. These funds could be no more appropriately used than through well designed and implemented drug and alcohol treatment programs. Although our
societal effort to curb the use of alcohol and illicit drugs and the many problems that go along with that use has been tremendous, it has been unsuccessful. We
have approached the problems surrounding drug and alcohol use from a criminalist perspective as opposed to a humanistic perspective. We have chosen penalization and incarceration over rehabilitation and, as
a consequence, we continue to pay. Not only does incarceration fail to solve the drug/alcohol problem, it costs more than what would be incurred if we were to rehabilitate
drug and alcohol users rather than put them in the penitentiary. The view that incarceration is not the solution for drug
and alcohol abuse is supported by a wide cross-section of our population. Author James P. Gray, for example, takes this stance in "Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed and
What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs". Grays (2002) argument is based on his experiences as first a federal prosecutor, then a
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