For every $1 million spent on treatment, the consumption of more than 100 kilograms of cocaine is averted. In other words, treatment is up to ten times more cost effective than enforcement (perhaps partly because it addresses demand rather than supply, as outlined in the previous section). The boring but unsurprising truth is that it costs less money to get someone off drugs and into a job than it does to chase that person down in a BearCat.
