If Drug Treatment Works So Well, Why Are So Many Drug Users in Prison?

Harold Pollack, Peter Reuter & Eric Sevigny
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Copyright 2011
ISBN 978-0-226-11512-2
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Book editors: Philip Cook, Jens Ludwig & Justin McCrary
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