We need to stop aiming our efforts at shadows.  Overdoses are the result of making possession of meth a crime.  European nations understand this mis-directed thinking.  They don't have the problem America has.  Drug use in America is an avoidance behavior - running from pain of discrimination, joblessness, poverty, mental illness and a host of other "inducements." The cost of incarceration is so high that even a tiny slice of those costs could transform our society's attitude toward mental health rather than cops "spanking" everybody in sight.  Abusive daddies never solved a problem.  They cause them.