Bold to assume there was any money saved. But either way, people underestimate how expensive addiction treatment is, and overestimate how effective it is. Proh

Bold to assume there was any money saved. But either way, people underestimate how expensive addiction treatment is, and overestimate how effective it is. Prohibition of alcohol, or rather the teetotaller movement, came because they realized society had a problem it couldn't individualize and pay itself out of. We still haven't, but for a good 80 years we've had enough money to hide the problem.