Addiction Quote by Michael Botticelli

We've been addicted to incarceration as a primary response for decades, whether or not it's a good use of resources, whether or not it's…

— Chesa Boudin

“We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of addiction. Addiction is a medical crisis that—when it comes to nonviolent offenders—warrants medical interventions, not incarceration. Decades later,…

— Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail…

— Ralph Nader

We can see in retrospect that criminalizing the consumption of alcohol proves not to be the solution to the very real problem of drunkenness.…

— Glenn Loury

Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.

— Maia Szalavitz

The issue is, you do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that…

— Kevin Sabet

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

It is unacceptable that the way we have treated people who have become addicted in the past is by throwing them in prison. It's…

— Perri Peltz

By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and create situations…

— Chesa Boudin

“Having described the unprecedented scale of imprisonment in America, we may still ask: is America’s use of imprisonment really a justifiable (and effective) solution…

— David Cay Johnston

We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the…

— John Legend

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

— Barry McCaffrey