Drug treatment needs to be affordable and available locally

Bring drug treatment services close to home, to where people need them. Travelling to another city, or even country, for drug treatment and rehab is daunting, and often potential patients cannot pay for the transportation, much less the services. It’s all about accessibility of drug treatment. We need a greater understanding of what drug dependence is--a chronic relapsing disease that should be treated as a health matter, and not as a moral failing, and much less as a criminal offense. High quality drug treatment helps reduce recidivism into crime and relapse into drug use.