Jul
8th
2008
Tue
8th
2008
If all inmates and arrestees who need treatment [for drug abuse] received it and the success rate were only 10 percent, the cost of treatment would be recouped in a year, and thereafter the economic benefits in productivity, taxes and reduction in criminal activity would approach $10 billion a year.
— Joseph A. Califano Jr., chairman and president, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University in a letter to the N.Y. Times.
