Without going back to court. Or you may go back to court, but the full term of the sentence is imposed at that point, through the failure, which triggers the full term of the sentence. And having lost the right to appeal, you will serve the full term.
Only 14% of people who go through the drug court system successfully go through the entire system. So 85% of people go back into the prison system due to failure or dropout.
Now, it's the equivalent, absolutely the moral and ethical equivalent, of punishing a cancer patient for failing their chemotherapy. Addiction, by its very nature, is going to be a waxing and waning of substance use. Many people will fall off or try to quit a few times. I don't know if you've ever tried to quite cigarette smoking. We'll quit a few times before getting successful treatment or before getting out of substance use. So the system itself just entrenches our current prohibitionist approach.
There is some great research on the Canadian drug court model system. I'm happy to make it available to this panel. I recommend Benedikt Fischer's examination from 2003 and John Anderson's study from, I think, 2004. They both looked at international drug courts and the lack of evidence to support their efficacy, both in Canada and internationally.
Thank you.