270 addicts have gotten help instead of handcuffs through Anaheim program

ANAHEIM — Brian Prame had already hit bottom more than once when, about nine months ago, he told the Anaheim Police Department he wanted help for his drug addiction.
Prame, 30, said he had spent several years on the street using heroin and methamphetamine. He’d been to jail more than half a dozen times, most recently serving six months after leading police on a high-speed chase while driving drunk.
When he got released and started using drugs again, even though he didn’t w