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The Evidence Gap Drug Rehabilitation or Revolving Door?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

December 23, 2008 The Evidence Gap Drug Rehabilitation or Revolving Door? By BENEDICT CAREY NY Times ROSEBURG, Ore. ? Their first love might be the rum or vodka or gin and juice that is going around the bonfire. Or maybe the smoke, the potent marijuana that grows in the misted hills here like moss on a wet stone. But it hardly matters. Here as elsewhere in the country, some users start early, fall fast and in their reckless prime can swallow, snort, inject or smoke anything available, from crystal meth to prescription pills to heroin and ecstasy. And treatment, if they get it at all, can seem like a joke. ?After the first couple of times I went through, they basically told me that there was nothing they could do,? said Angella, a 17-year-old from the central Oregon city of Bend, who by freshman year in high school was drinking hard liquor every day, smoking pot and sampling a variety of harder drugs...continue to full post

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