The money could be better spent on prevention and or education.
All addicts, deal or steal to support their habit. That is the first thing recovering heroin addicts taught me while working in methadone maintenance. Even worse, there's little empirical research available but articles on narcan and clinic patients claim, eighty percent of junkies "saved" by narcan are back to shooting-up again within 24 hours. With a historical recovery rate ranging from 8% -12%, I agree with you.