re: Are food banks "enablers" of drug addicts??

I think you over simplify what it would take to treat the addiction. When they get to the level of "hopeless", no one wants to get clean more than the junkie or drunk.....when they are messed up. It is a complicated dynamic. They want to get clean and off it, but they cannot help themselves and in the case of the real addict being off the junk is physically painful.

Feeding them at shelters is more prefferable than not. Many shelters can refer these addicts to programs and treatment centers. It is a point of contact. You will never relieve society of the drunk or the addict, unfortunately