Lock them up for their own and our own good.
Dry them out.
Give them three hots and a cot, in some arid place.
Give it a couple of years.
Release them into monitored group housing in industrial areas. Re-arrest as necessary.
I’m a big civil libertarian. But allowing people addicted to heroin, meth or worse and keeping them in the free population is doing nobody a service.
You forgot: Sterilize them.
I consider myself a civil libertarian also. Why are cops using narcan to save druggies from their own decisions? The other half of freedom is responsibility.
It’d be cheaper and more expedient to put them in the public stocks on the courthouse square for a couple years or until the buzzards pick their bones whichever comes first.
Why not? We let alcoholics live amongst the free population. I've met some wretched drunks who were incapable of functioning until they got some booze in their system, their bodies wrecked by addiction. There's heroin addicts who go to work every day. I've known meth heads and crackheads who held down jobs.