Well, there&#x27;s enormous amounts of charity that ensures noone starves to death, and there&#x27;s enormous amounts of money spent by Fire departments&#x2F;Police&#x2F;EMT teams to handle emergencies, because those are deemed politically acceptable expenses.<p>But those are band-aid responses that can never ever eliminate the root cause. I&#x27;m convinced that the public would spend way less money over the long term, and the affected people would be vastly better off, if they were given proper long-term care and treatment.