If you're asking about my experience, I'm now going on to year seven as a prosecutor in various jurisdictions. The follow-through that you have in court and the ability for the crown to come to court twice a week...now in Ottawa, we might be going to once a week. But once or twice a week and that follow-through, and getting them hooked up in that intensive way with treatment while at the same time having that sentence hanging over their heads, seems to be working.
Certainly, I would think that if people went voluntarily on their own—and we talk about going on their own to in-treatment—that works as well. But then the problem is always that they go to in-treatment and then they come back into the community that they came from and they haven't gotten those skills as to how to not use. The advantage of drug treatment court in Ottawa, for instance, is that they're teaching people not to use in the community that they're going back to at the end of their sentence.