Illicit Drug Use: Legalization, Treatment, or Punishment?

by Richard Worth and Erin L. McCoy

Drug abuse and addiction in the United States has reached the level of an epidemic, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports. More than one million incarcerated people suffer from opioid and other addictions, but only one in ten receives addiction treatment. The debate raging around drug abuse today is whether addicts who commit crime should be sent to jail or to treatment. This book investigates the debate on how to confront illegal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1502643286
• ISBN13: 9781502643285
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12