Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:45:08 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200104232045.QAA01371@mattababy.mit.edu>
From: belmonte@mit.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
To: CapuanoHR8@aol.com
Subject: support the Treatment on Demand Assistance Act

I hope that you'll support the Treatment on Demand Assistance Act, introduced
in the House by Representative Cal Dooley of California.  This bill would
double federal funding for drug treatment programs.  These currently
underfunded programs have been turning away addicts who all too often end up
warehoused in the burgeoning prison system.  Prison is a cruel and costly
alternative to treatment.