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re: Opiod addicts will not be covered under TrumpCare
Posted on 6/26/17 at 1:15 pm to cajunbama
Posted on 6/26/17 at 1:15 pm to cajunbama
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treatment is generally much cheaper and much more effective than prison.
No, it's not. Methadone treatment is ~$5000/yr. It's efficacy rate in treating opioid addiction hovers charitably at 10%. So it takes at least $50,000 (probably much more) to "cure" one person of opioid addiction through methadone treatment. The other 9 aren't cured either and are still a cost to the system despite it all. They may come back for another round of methadone treatment or go on to offend.
It's not at all clear that "treatment" is cheaper than prison.
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Posted on 6/26/17 at 1:26 pm to the808bass
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No, it's not. Methadone treatment is ~$5000/yr. It's efficacy rate in treating opioid addiction hovers charitably at 10%. So it takes at least $50,000 (probably much more) to "cure" one person of opioid addiction through methadone treatment. The other 9 aren't cured either and are still a cost to the system despite it all. They may come back for another round of methadone treatment or go on to offend.
Methadone treatment is a thing of the past and very few opiod addicts go on it now with new medications like buprenorphine. And methadone and buprenorphine are replacement therapies, they are opioids. Essentially it's treating opiod addiction with more addictive opiods. And these are just two versions of treatment, their is also inpateint rehabilitation.
And do you think you can incarcerate someone for less than 5k a year?
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