> Brian wrote:
>
> "The next time I hear someone say that the government ought to put more
> money into drug _treatment_, instead of punishment and prison for drug
> offenders, I'm going to think of this. After all, drug treatment programs
> have to keep people drug free. Seems to me that a government-run anti-
> drug program'd do this."
>
> Surveillance is not treatment.
It's certainly part of it. Seems to me that getting someone off of drugs will involve some degree of surveillance. After all, aren't AA meetings just a way of having people check in with their case workers?