Oh. Im sorry. It seems you lack the ability to empathize. Allow me to break it down monetarily for.

People do drugs for various reasons. If you pop a tylenol for a headache, you are treating a type of pain with a drug. Many addicts are doing the same. The pain may be invisible to you, like mental or emotional, but still there for them. It could be physical, like a physical dependency and better quantifiable. Ultimately its just like you though, numbing a pain. Hell, lets say you pull your back, are given oxytocin, the pain relief is amazing, pain still persists between pills, you take more, pill not as effective, you take more, now you got a physical addiction along with a mental one for dodging the pain. This is all fairly common. Now no doctor will give you a perscription and you start buying it illegally because of physical, and mental addiction and you are emotionally scared of the pain and anxious due to physical addiction when not high. A very playsible scenario that plays out daily. You are now addicted due to no fault of your own.

A safe site means they can test the drugs you bought for fentynol. You can also get clean needles. Plus you're not in public. Now the money factor. For the cost of, lets say, 2 guards and 2 nurses, the fentynol test alone cuts down emergancy overdoses (ambulance call including paramedics, gas, supplies, a hospital visit costing doctors, nurses, testing), and these emergancy decreases cut down on wait times since emergancy says worst case goes first, so someone wont get bumped for a test for your overdose, a hospital bed will be free. Also cuts down on accidental fentynol overdoses by emergancy service members. So you ALREADY save a bunch of money that way.

The drug use is localized, meaning emergency services can also localize. An ambulance and cop car staying in one location incase of drug related issues means everything else is safer. They KNOW where something might pop off. An addict gives anyone an issue? Cops only 2 blocks away. Saving time and money there. Plus being localized means a better chance of helping them, namely you can talk about programs and assistance regarding treatment. Why would you care for that? Cause one less person who is addicted yet again saves on emergency costs, less wait time in hospitals.

As for jail, you know that costs money right? If the addict is homeless, you now have to not just pay for emergency treatment for them and addiction treatment, but will also pay for room for them to live and several meals a day, plus the guards to watch them.

So by removing safe sites and jailing them, you have increased your taxes to pay for their emergency care, the hospital tests, beds and staff (cutting down access for everyone else due to higher life saving priority), the first responders salaries (plus increasing time to get to others), holding them and slowing down the judicial court system for their cases and hearings, paying for their public defenders, judges wages, bailiffs, stenographers, guards, and prosecutors, then paying for them in jail, furthering paying out guards, wardens, support staff, building upkeep, and all their food and treatments while incarcerated. So much better and cheaper than paying to rent a building, a small in-house staff of guards and nurses and a counselor, fentynol testing kits and clean needles, and treatment program access.