It's imbalanced. The broad programs internationally that have shown the greatest success in dramatically reducing high-risk addiction have put the goal before themselves of ensuring social reintegration. That theme was also once active in North America.
In fact, that is the format in which methadone was introduced as a practice. It was not a stand-alone drug administration program but an inducement into a much more comprehensive process that ensured social reintegration.
By adding drugs and not paying attention to the necessity of supporting robust social reintegration, we are essentially, in many cases, providing into a system of poverty a fungible asset.