They are indeed people who use drugs who are also violent criminals.
And there are people who use no drugs who are also violent criminals.
Perhaps we should deal with violent criminals when we encounter violent criminals.
Let me ask you this.
If druggies should be kept away from normal people and kids via long prison sentences, should people who use alcohol be kept away from normal people and kids via long prison sentences?
Alcohol is a drug, and an addictive and deadly one at that, and there are most certainly violent alcoholics, I know this for a fact, because I grew up with one.
So, should those who consume alcohol be tossed in prison?
You have to look on the bright side of incarceration. You can be with all your druggie friends and you all can babble your druggie philosophy to each other, because outside of those walls, back in the world of normal people who work and have kids, NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR IT.