Your definition of "poor" is very interesting.  If someone can't pay for $5400 after-tax per month for drug treatment, it has nothing to do with being "poor".   Didn't the Globe and Mail have a article about people who were scraping by on $500k per annum a couple of weeks ago?   Since they were scraping by, they would not have been able to afford this expense either, and don't start shovelling a story that $500k per annum means they are "poor".