Due to oppressive and extreme drug laws, Tunisian prisons are crowded with first-time offenders who may never fully be a functional part of Tunisian society again due to the dark taint on their records, a taint that will prevent them from reaching the market labor and make them a target to social stigma and harassment. There have been numerous reports of the Police abusing its authority and being part of unlawful arrests and degrading treatment of drug offenders, such as home raids without warrants or forcing urine tests with no sufficient ground for suspicion. This makes Tunisia a prolific ground for demonizing and prosecuting individuals recreationally using drugs, and leaves them lacking legal securities to protect themselves from unjust prosecutions, and lacking a support system that gives them basic safety precautions and ways to survive drug abuse and addiction.