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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (10298)	11/3/2007 11:00:43 AM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25737

please please please just say no. We can not afford this "war" any longer. Nor can our children, grand children or great grand children. We need to set future generations free from this failed policy.

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (10298)	11/3/2007 11:48:14 AM
From: MJ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25737

The Rand Corporation is aimed at "treatment after the person or persons are addicted". In this brief description what is being ignored is the impact on families of these addicts. This is the real cost to this nation------the damage to families and children and society at large. There have been efforts to rehabilitate Cocaine addicts for years. For the most part it hasn't worked. There have been programs using other 'legal medications' (still a drug) to get the addicts off of drugs. Have a psychologist friend who had the job of monitoring addicts in the withdrawal stages after being injected with an experimental medicine(drug) to hopefully get the addicts off of drugs ----finally that friend quit the job and declared it a hopeless effort. "Instead of trying to control supply, the U.S. could make a bigger impact on drug abuse by making treatment more available. According to a RAND Corporation study, treatment is ten times more effective at reducing cocaine abuse than interdiction and 23 times more effective than attempting to eradicate cocaine at its source. Piper said, "An estimated 20 percent of cocaine users account for 80 percent of the quantities consumed. Providing treatment to everyone who needs it--without threat of imprisonment or fear of criminal sanctions--could significantly reduce demand and make drug selling less profitable." " This is addressing addiction after it becomes a problem not before. RAND needs to go back to the drawing board on this. jmho mj