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Boortz, Neal. Somebody's Gotta Say It. New York City: Harper, 2007. Print.

The modern day War on Drugs proves to use methods that are more expensive that other options and create more of a burden for taxpayers. The current method used known as domestic law enforcment, which simply refers to the laws and law enforcement. Rather than treating drugs as a criminal offense, the government could instead offer treatment. When considering the efficiency of the two options one must remember that, "To reduce drug usage by 1 percent through treatment programs would cost about 34 million, while doing the same through our current domestic enforcement method costs about 238 million" (Boortz 204). By changing the method by which the government deals with drugs, the same overall goal could be accomplished for a fraction of the price.