Author Question: You are treating a cocaine addict who was incarcerated for a drugrelated crime, began using again ... (Read 115 times)

Shelles · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

You are treating a cocaine addict who was incarcerated for a drugrelated crime, began using again when released, committed another drug-related crime, was incarcerated again, and is now released again.

Why was being imprisoned insufficient to stop a relapse?
A. Offenders of drug-related crimes have high rates of recidivism.
B. Treatment is more effective than incarceration at reducing drug
use and drug-related crime.
C. The war on drugs spends too much money on incarceration
and not enough on prevention and treatment.
D. A zero-tolerance approach is better than a harm-reduction
approach.

Question 2

You are working with a low-level drug dealer who became addicted to his own product. He tells you about the level of organization involved in his operations and how much money he made before he became addicted.

He says the war on drugs is like Prohibition and laughs.
What does he mean?
A. Bootleggers are guaranteed profits like dealers, and it is
unenforceable.
B. Dealers are guaranteed profits like bootleggers, and it is
unenforceable.
C. The war on drugs is logical, fair, and enforceable, just like
Prohibition was.
D. The war on drugs dismantles organized crime.