Thread: GOP health-care bill would drop addiction treatment mandate covering 1.3 million Amer

Drug addicts who don't get treatment usually end up in jail or prison

so one way or another the taxpayers are going to end up paying for them.


Spotlight: Mental health and prisons, the new asylums

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/spotlight/the-desperate-and-the-dead/series/prisons/
Nov 25, 2016 - And inmates with a “dual diagnosis” of addiction and mental illness, like ... The full-time mental health staff in the prisons is 25 percent smaller ...