Nothing helps society more than enabling people become hard core addicts with no consequences to the addict, but huge consequences for society itself both financially and culturally.
Singapore has the right solution to the drug epidemic.
It helps nobody when someone who is addicted to a substance (which might have first been prescribed to them legally) is placed cage with gangbangers and loses their ability to earn a living. That will only make their addiction worse and increase their chances of becoming a violent criminal down the road.
I’ve met professionals prescribed opiods after surgery who became addicted and then lost their ability to work forever due to legal issues even if they did treat their addiction. It makes absolutely no sense