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Three, to address the purely monetary section of your argument, the answer to the question is purely mathematical. What is 700,000+ x 20,000 (does that figure include the price for making new prisons, which we seem to be doing at a prodigious rate?) versus Unknown # of ER x 20,000+ (likely 20k to 30k?). Drugwarfacts.org lists the number of deaths from illicit drug use, direct and indirect, at 17,000. I have to say even if it cost 30,000 for the average ER visit, and we multiply the number of deaths figure by 2 or even 3 times to simulate ER visitations, the numbers don't even come close to comparing.

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unfortunately..i dont have any statistics available..but my guess (and this is strictly a guess) is that the # of drug-related ER visits (including accidents) far exceed 2-3 times 17000 deaths...to justify the cost of incarceration we would need to establish that on average..each drug user generates at least one ER visit (at $20000) per year...

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