The RAND Corporation finds that
drug treatment is more effective and
far less costly than longer sentences
or conventional enforcement!
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The graph at right illustrates that
treating heavy cocaine users could
reduce consumption by 103
kilograms per extra million dollars. |
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Additional treatment is 4
times more effective than
adding law enforcement
and 8 times more effective
than increasing sentences
in reducing cocaine use.
Source:
Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayers' Money?
(1997), RAND Corp
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The graph compares the cost of
reducing cocaine consumption by 1%
nationally with 4 different strategies.
Because it actually reduces the
demand for cocaine and the societal
costs of drug use without requiring
massive prison spending:
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Added drug treatment
is 15 times more effective
than law enforcement at
reducing the societal
costs of cocaine use.
Source: Controlling Cocaine: Supply Vs. Demand Programs.
(1994), RAND Corp.
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Why aren't we investing in drug control
strategies that really work?
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