Drug addicts to jail or mandatory drug treatment?

I believe it would be best for the addict and people often around them or those they may come in contact with that drug addicts be sent to a mandatory drug treatment. I mean maybe all a person really needs is to talk out their problems, see how it is affecting others, an opportunity to be given help, and/or shown options of how to quit or slowly quit an addiction. If they were just sent in to jail for detox or imprisoned they would have to go at the addiction cold turkey which will only give them seriously bad withdrawals that some people can not handle making them feel the only way to cope is to take more dugs or just want it that more badly when they are released. It is no way to go at fighting a drug addiction unless it is what that person wants or it is absolutely the last resort toward an addiction.