Most ER visits and hospitalizations are a consequence of lifestyle choices and perilous activities.

We allocate about 80 per cent of our drug control budget to law enforcement, about 15 per cent to treatment, about 2 per cent to harm reduction and whatever remains to education and research.  

There is no evidence that drug law enforcement accomplishes anything beneficial, whereas we know from heroin maintenance trials in Canada and decades of experience in countries like Switzerland that providing chronic opiate users with pharmaceutical heroin gets them off of the hamster wheel of raising money by hook or by crook to pay gangs for adulterated drugs and shepherds users into treatment, including abstinence-based treatment, saving tax dollars in downstream social costs .  If you have no problem with spending on law enforcement, then your objections to heroin maintenance are not scientific or economic.