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A 10 page emphasis that rehabilitation has the potential to solve our long lasting problems surrounding drug abuse. The author provides data demonstrating the advantages of rehabilitation verses incarceration. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Although our societal effort to curb the use of illicit drugs and the many problems that go along with that drug use has
been tremendous, it has been unsuccessful. We have approached the problems surrounding drug 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 use problem, it costs more than what would
be incurred if we were to rehabilitate drug users rather than put them in the penitentiary. Drug abuse comes at great
societal costs. One of the most convincing arguments as to why some individuals abuse drugs contend that drug abuse is inextricably linked with many of the social problems we
face today. Another equally unfortunate correlation in substance abuse is crime. Psychology, sociology, and drugs all work together to increase the propensity for an individual to engage in
criminal activity. When we incarcerate people for drugs alone then we can often complicate an already-complicated problem. The view that incarceration is
not the solution for drug 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 trial judge, and finally a California Superior Court Justice. Gray is joined by sociologists, psychiatrists, and even others
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