The hard line approach is most likely going to make things worse. Just look at what is going on in eastern Europe and Russia. instead of treatment, the decades long hard line approach to the opioid epidemic there has caused an AIDS/HIV epidemic and led the the creation of horrible street drugs like Krokodil. Krokodil is essentially a heroin substitute which is made with codeine/opioid derivatives that is cooked with gasoline and other solvents. Taking Krokodil is a death sentence because it dissolves the human body from the inside out.