Do You Think That Drug Treatment Programs in Prisons Are Effective? Why or Why Not? What Needs to Be Changed?

Published August 15, 2012

Question by ganicity: Do you think that drug treatment programs in prisons are effective? Why or why not? What needs to be changed?
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Answer by bob6543
i dont think they work. i dont think anything can be done to make them work

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