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Treatment or Incarceration? National and State Findings on the Efficacy and Cost Savings of Drug Treatment Versus Imprisonment
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Treatment or Incarceration? National and State Findings on the Efficacy and Cost Savings of Drug Treatment Versus Imprisonment
Publication year:
2004
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: A report documenting how drug treatment is more cost-effective than incarceration is presented. Findings are: treatment can be less expensive than imprisonment; treatment can be cost effective; treatment can reduce substance abuse and recidivism while building communities; and promising treatment models exist in Maryland and around the country.