Let me see if I can boil this article down to the salient facts.  A woman acquired an illegal drug.Then the woman became addicted to the illegal drug. Now the woman's mother is arguing that is it the government's responsibility to pay for her daughter's recovery through Medicaid. This is a completely self imposed problem, so why am I and my fellow citizens asked to pay for the addict's medical treatment?  What responsibility does the addict have for her addiction?  What responsibility does the addict have for her treatment, how does she financially contribute?  What happens when the addict returns to addiction after treatment?  Said another way, what are the addict's consequences for her bad choices?  On this we can be sure, absent consequences the next chapter is the same as the first chapter.