You two seem to have a flawed perception of how this works in real life.
#1 - Most of them don't actually want help until they are in trouble with the law or have f#cked over family members to the point where they are outcasts, even then this is a ruse. This leads them to robbery to support their drug habbit which eventually leads them to jail. They almost never go to jail for actual drugs, its the sh!ty things they do to get drugs that gets them locked up. Creating rehab facilities does not help these people and I would wager MOST heroin addicts are somewhere in this cycle. The people who WANT help can find it readily available, problem is most of them just flat out like getting high and have no intention of getting 'well'
#2 you think them dying off is a problem, I do not. I do however find it to be a problem to condone use of the worst drug in the world (Meth vs Heroin I guess is a valid debate)
#3 I am not for more jail, but I am also not for having dangerous drug addicts who do not actually want to get well having safe injection zones because I fundamentally disagree that they have a 'problem' and I tend to think they are lazy and self entitled children who need to be locked away until they are clean.
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