CRIME DIVIDEND MAKES CUTTING ADDICTION TREATMENT A FALSE ECONOMY
The English National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse calculates the crime reduction dividend
for society arising from effective addiction treatment at billions of pounds, meaning cuts in
funding would be more than wiped out by the costs of increased crime. But are the assumptions valid,
and is the argument persuasive in the new policy environment?
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