To the degree that drugs are an issue, they are not an issue in isolation to all others. People don’t usually just wake up one morning and start using substances to excess for no reason, or as a deliberate gesture of contempt towards the rest of the world. They are usually an anesthetic for some sort of unresolved pain-and in some cases, a substitute for the prescription psychiatric medications or the prescription pain medicines a person unable to get due to their income level or lack of a personal physician or the lack of the walk-in treatment centers that were supposed to be put in place when deinstitutionalization happened(and deinstitutionalization generally can’t be reversed)but were blocked by NIMBY types in much of the country. None of these issues can be resolved by arresting people or driving them out of town. And these problems are often worse in states which still have “zero-tolerance” drug policies-those are the places where meth and opioids first became a major problem-then they are in states where the decision has been made to try more humane approach. Incarcerating people or moving them down the road achieves nothing, especially since most prisons are filled with drugs and few if any have effective programs to get people off of drugs.