Rehab Vs. Incarceration
Should drug offenders go to rehab or jail?
ITT Technical Institute
Abstract
This document will show why non-violent drug offenders should be given a chance to rectify their wrong doings. The research will show not only how rehabilitation programs such as DTAP are more cost effective and beneficial to an addict than prison sentences. The introduction will show how addiction can change a person so much so they end up in jail. The second and third sections will show the differences between prison and DTAP programs, while the conclusion will summarize the research findings.
Rehab Vs. Incarceration
Should drug offenders go to rehab or jail?

Addiction
Addiction has become an open conversation in America. Millions of Americans have been effected by addiction in some way or another. Many people know someone who has been effected by this terrible disease whether it be a parent, partner, sibling or friend or may have been affected themselves. This researcher has seen first-hand what addiction can do to a person. While these people stand on the sidelines watching the person they know and love turn into someone completely unrecognizable. When an addiction starts it may just be using on the weekends, here and there, or as the doctor prescribes. As time ticks on, it becomes twice as many as prescribed and before they know it, it has become every day. Eventually, they have no way to support their habit. Because their life has become such chaos there’s no way they could go to work every day. As a result, addicts turn to stealing, dealing, and even prostitution. Addicts will lie and manipulate anyone that gets in the way of them and their substance of choice. They will do anything for the next high. Family and friends sit by helplessly, hoping they get help, begging and pleading. Already deep in the throes of their disease, they truly believe