Treatment Instead of Prison for Drug Addicts

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Prisons and the Mentally Ill

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PAT NOLAN: And the reason that the mentally ill take the drugs is it's a way of self-medicating, to try to get past all the pain or the voices in their head, you know, whatever the demons that are inside them. SEVERSON: Sheriff Dart has now put in …
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Drug addicts should be treated, not imprisoned

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Kadek Adi Mantara, director of Bali Health Foundation (Yakeba), told Bali Daily recently that the campaign was a reminder for people and policy makers that drug users badly needed medical treatment rather than jail time. “The Indonesian government's …
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