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Trials, tribulations of drug reform: Washington state choosing treatment.(The Seattle Times)
SEATTLE _ It's been about 18 years since she took her first drink, 11 years since she tried cocaine, two and a half years since she gave birth to her daughter, and one year since the drug-dealing arrest that landed her in prison.
"I'm an addict, I'm an alcoholic," said Michelle Gee, 32, sitting in a prison visiting room. "I'll always be in recovery."
Despite her failures with drugs and alcohol, Gee insists that treatment works. She has more than two years left on her sentence at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Purdy, Wash., and says she knows how to avoid making the same mistakes. She knows, she says, because of drug treatment.
Nationwide, the "drug war" is shifting from locking up drug offenders to treating their addictions. President Bush last month pledged more money for federal treatment programs. Several states have changed laws to allow treatment as a sentencing option.
In Washington state, a bill that would reduce some prison sentences and shift resources to treatment programs now awaits Gov. Gary Locke's signature.
Medical professionals and treatment advocates consider addiction a disease. Drugs, they say, chemically change an addict's brain.
Opponents insist drug abuse is a crime, plain and simple.
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