You are misunderstanding my point. It isn't 'let them have all the drugs they want', it's 'what do we do when they want to stop'. It would be easy to give them

You are misunderstanding my point. It isn't 'let them have all the drugs they want', it's 'what do we do when they want to stop'. It would be easy to give them access to drugs that allow them maintain their addiction, even for the rest of their lives, with no withdrawals (for the opiates, anyway). Even without that, the process for getting clean is not easy. You can't walk into a hospital with withdrawals and expect to be admitted -- unless it is alcohol or benzos they won't do anything at all for you. We should as a society stop saying 'they chose their fate' and instead give them options for a softer landing when they decide that they had enough.