As long as breaking laws where there are victims are still enforced. You shouldn't let a meth addict skip jail after they wrong someone. The biggest problem then becomes that "rehab" is simply a place where people who have no interest in cleaning up can get substitute drugs and new drug contacts at a very high monetary cost.
Rehabs need to divide people who actually want to become clean, and then isolate those people in something like a camp or commune for long periods. Most states have no great programs outside of detox and group houses.
As long as breaking laws where there are victims are still enforced. You shouldn't let a meth addict skip jail after they wrong someone.
That's a really good point. If someone smokes meth and then steals a car, the crime was stealing the car. If someone shoots heroin in their parent's basement, no crime is committed.
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