That never happened.
“Father forgive them for they know not what they do” - what’s that called when you do stuff and you don’t know you did it? And why does society put people like this in charge?
I’m the father of a recovering meth addict. There needs to be some criminality for use. It takes some form of detention keep them clean long enough to start their brain on a healing process, else they may never regain the ability to reason again. That said, I am not for letting them rot in prison with real criminals.
The right kind of rehab, with enough detention time and requirements to work, works better and, done right, is more cost effective in returning them to being productive citizens. But if they are determined to be a dopehead, long term incarceration, in some cases, may be the right answer. It is not a one-size fits all proposition, and sometimes corruption in the criminal justice system creates more problems than they solve.