For me, as someone who remains untouched by this national calamity and thus is looking at it from the outside, it's impossible to understand why we insist people have to be completely off drugs or else we'll just allow them to die. I'd rather see people getting maintenance medication than just being written off. Don't we care about lives? SCREW THE 12-STEP PROGRAMS. We pretend they are infallible. Obviously they only work for a small number of people.