Now, to be fair, one place I might agree with such a program is for picking up people for public intoxication. If the police respond, the person is likely to b

Now, to be fair, one place I might agree with such a program is for picking up people for public intoxication. If the police respond, the person is likely to be uncooperative and/or hostile because they expect to get arrested, but perhaps if we have someone taking them to get medical care (and help them into rehab) some of this hostility would be avoided and we might not end up with people overdosing on drugs dying in police custody.