That's not the half of the socialist state, how about this one: the City of St. Louis sets homeless alchololics up in apartments with cabinets stocked with liquor! Reason, they'd rather "provide" the liquor since the addicted will probably get it somehow and it would be better to provide it rather than have the addicts stealing, etc. Taxpayer funded addictions?
You know - I don't believe the claim that the consumption of these people dropped from 30 something drinks a day to 8. I doubt that the 30 something number was an average, and also I'd be willing to bet that when these drunks get there hourly ration of rum (More, sir?) they lick their lips and say to themselves "That didn't quite cut it" and go out and hustle, steal, panhandle, whatever, for more booze to get up to whatever level they think they needed.