It is not. People have used substances in all cultures for millennia. We're not going to stop that through involuntary treatment or criminalization.
It's difficult to listen to lengthy debates about the less than 2% of overdoses attributed to pharmaceuticals, when many of us are on the front lines of this crisis. Really, what it comes down to is stigma. Criminalization creates stigma. It forces people to use in the shadows and to hide their use from family, friends and loved ones. I think that takes away from what we're trying to do as a community, which is end the toxic drug crisis.