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Offering treatment to drug users instead of arresting them reduces crime and addiction – new research into police diversion program shows

  • Written by Josephine Korchmaros, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona
Offering treatment to drug users instead of arresting them reduces crime and addiction – new research into police diversion program showsPeople mourn loved ones who have died from drug overdoses before replica tombstones in Binghamton, N.Y., on Aug. 19, 2023.Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

When police get suspected drug abusers treatment rather than arresting them, those people are less likely to abuse drugs or commit drug-related crimes in the future, new, limited...

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