It also pushes addicts outside the protection of the law, making them easy victims for other crimes. They won't seek the protections of the criminal justice sys

It also pushes addicts outside the protection of the law, making them easy victims for other crimes. They won't seek the protections of the criminal justice system because they perceive themselves as being on the wrong side of it and likely to be as abused by the system as they were by their victimizers.