text: I agree. Addiction is a mental illness. Until addicts can be apprehended, treated and, if necessary, institutionalized, there will be no solution to this growing problem. Law makers and administrators must come to the realization that while most decent people would not begrudge the costs involved, they are not going to tolerate the wasteful, open-ended and ineffectual approach that is being taken currently. They must also realize that apprehension of the many addicts that are mentally incapable of caring for themselves is not a contravention of their human rights. The is no value to society in the right to live at large in a mentally incapable state and enslaved to drugs.