If the war on drugs has proven to be a failure, why are most governments focused on incarceration instead of rehabilitation?

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If the war on drugs has proven to be a failure, why are most governments focused on incarceration instead of rehabilitation?

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Answer 1

Because rehabilitation approaches don’t work. That’s not to say it wouldn’t be between, clearly rehabilitation would produce more value than incarceration. It’s just that we know how to effectively incarcerate people and we don’t know how to effectively rehabilitate people. It turns out that most internal thought process manipulation isn’t very effective.