No, drugs are a lucrative, high dollar, billion dollars business, too many politicians, police, policymakers, involved in keeping drugs coming into America.
Can we stop large number of drug-involved criminal offenders from using illegal drugs??
"Using"? Use in the drug trade for profit or use the substances themself? if you want a broad answer study "the war on drugs" it should give you a pretty satisfying: No. Depending on what change you expect to see from it.
You can't stop the drug dependent criminals until you stop the supply of drugs coming into the country. I don't see that ever happening.
Dear Em ma,
Even though I am not ready to give you an all-out YES, for reasons mentioned by your other answerers, here is one hopeful note:
In the Iowa State women's prison (and other states too), around the year 2000 they brought in a stringent program for drug offenders called THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY. I have personally known women who succeeded because of this program, and a statistical followup study demonstrated its efficacy.
Unfortunately, the program has now been dropped for lack of funding.* * *
