Re:Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime
by white-flame on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:14PM
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> This would increase access and competition among providers, and avoid rent-seeking kinds of economic problems in the health care market.
That would also incentivize increasing total substance use to make a profit, just like for-profit prisons create an incentive to increase the incarceration rate to make a profit. Any checks you make against use (like those competency tests) would be undermined by that incentive.
That would also incentivize increasing total substance use to make a profit, just like for-profit prisons create an incentive to increase the incarceration rate to make a profit. Any checks you make against use (like those competency tests) would be undermined by that incentive.