The data for 1997 reveal, " that respondents arrested in the past year for possession or sale of drugs and driving under the influence had the highest percentage of illicit drug use [during] the past year" and that " illicit drug users were also about 16 times more likely than non [drug] users to report being arrested and booked for larceny or theft" and "..... A study conducted for the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, for example, found treatment to be 15 times more cost-effective than law enforcement at reducing cocaine abuse. ... In 2002, voters in Washington, D...
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