99% of addicts will never become healthy and productive members of society.  99% of people convicted of drug crimes involving addiction will never become healthy productive members of society.  They will reoffend.  They will start reusing.  They will recommit crimes against society, their spouses, their children, their neighbors, their parents, their grandparents.  They have been changed forever by their addictions.  Addiction is their soul.  Every early release means a more dangerous city for everyone.  More shootings, more violence.  More human behavior that defies rational explanation.