Check this statement from Tazewell County Virginia’s Commonwealth Attorney: “If you take away drug addiction, it would put us out of a job,” Lee said. “About 80 percent of crimes committed are related to drugs.” Source
69.5% of Treatment Revenues Come From Public Funds
February 7, 2011 By 7 Comments
Unfortunately, most of the money spent on treatment for drug and alcohol problems comes from the government. This situation props up the false and ineffective disease model favored by government agencies such as the NIDA, and results in worse services for us all. There is no free market competition working to bring better help to people with addiction.
No Free Market For Addicts
August 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Markets get clogged with this. We live in a wonderful country in which the free market system has provided us with increasingly cheaper and more effective technology. Just looking at the options we have in cell phones and how quickly they became affordable for all, and the many options we have in choosing a phone [...]
State Proudly Wastes $200,000,000 A Year
July 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs (BDAP) will now be represented by a cabinet level secretary – which is a promotion of sorts, it means that a bureau becomes a department, or something like that. Anyways, some politician with a heroin addict son fought for this for 6 six years, so it’s a big [...]
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