CRÓNICAS ANTIMAFIA

The recovery of people with drug addiction issues is the key policy in the fight against organized crime.

Since the 1970s, the same policies of mass incarceration for those who produce and sell drugs have remained in place.

So far, the State has failed to provide effective—let alone innovative—responses to this phenomenon. In Italy, however, with the support of organized civil society and broad sectors of the political and judicial systems, efforts have been underway for nearly seventy years to develop a series of logical, modern, and interconnected tools to confront mafia organizations and to restore key democratic values that are eroded by mafia activity—chief among them, the public’s trust in