Court-mandated treatment would be at least as effective, I should think.
That was part of it. But we discovered that not all drug treatment facilities are good at what they do . . . a drug addict is one of the easiest kinds of people in the world to take advantage of . . . and a couple of them did. One of the rehab facilities was good, and he learned enough to put him on the right track. Two others were not so good, one actually bad, so much so that now, as bad as he hates jail, he would rather go to jail than to rehab.