for real, addicts don't need incarceration, they need rehabilitation.

Like when I overdosed on heroin, I was given a year to serve in jail, rather than rehab. Jail didn't make me not want to do the drug, though I don't do it anymore. Jail is not a deterrent for 'crime' to people who aren't afraid of jail. And to be quite honest, jail really isn't all that bad, depending on the conditions in your local county jail.