I've never seen the usefulness of threats. At best it seems the last strategy after all others have failed. And very few options - beside crime, police and mass incarceration - have been adequately provided and tried in the mass addiction era we are in. (And why are addicts of drugs thrown in jail but not addicts or sex, work, or gambling?) Drug courts are better than the regular criminal court system, and they are few and far between for such a massive social problem