What you're suggesting is not standard medical practice, to be clear. Treatment for heroin addiction is to get that person off of heroin, not let them die. An

What you're suggesting is not standard medical practice, to be clear. Treatment for heroin addiction is to get that person off of heroin, not let them die. And no, we don't have to prioritize maintaining a healthy population, not to the degree that treating the ill is excluded. That implies a limitation of resources that simply does not exist. We can and do both.