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The Latest Proof That Treating Drug Addicts With Compassion Has Become Mainstream

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Exactly 43 years ago this week, Republican New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller called for mandatory prison sentences of 15 years to life for even the lowest-level drug offenders.

Now, some of those aspiring to be the next Republican president seem to be trying to outdo each other in striking a softer tone when it comes to tackling the nation’s drug epidemic.

Things got personal at the New Hampshire Forum on Addiction and the Heroin Epidemic on Tuesday, where candidates addressed voters in a state where more people died last year from overdoses than in highway crashes.

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As Heroin Epidemic Grows, So Does Rehab Wait

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As the U.S. heroin epidemic grows, so does the wait list for federally-funded rehab.

In Massachusetts, substance abusers have to wait weeks to get help. In Florida, it’s a month.

Wait times are as long as 18 months in Maine.

One Ohio woman couldn’t wait. That’s why she asked a judge to send her to jail so she could get clean. “There’s no help out there anymore,” Kayla Dempsey told c. “There’s a three-month waiting list for any rehab around here because of the heroin epidemic.”

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