> I suggest the drug user equivalent of an insane asylum. If you've shown you're a danger to yourself and/or others you get a place in a retreat/monastery/rehab centre/prison island where you get the care you need.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals." - C.S. Lewis, "God in the Dock"

To be fair, I used to think it would be best to use the courts to force medical treatment; the problem is that it invariably leads to labeling folks as "ill" and using courts to imprison them for their own safety.

It's a great quote, pity it came from a literal Christian apologist. Art/Artist etc. This was around the time of chemical castrations and other such 'cures' so it's quite meaningful.

I'm personally much less interested in their care then the safety of our public spaces, but I think we can all agree one leads to the other.