But they will balk at taxpayer money being used for preventative programs which intend to stop people from becoming addicted to hard drugs (heroin/opiates, meth, cocaine) in the first place, and also balk at paying money for treatment of current addicts.
Americans, culturally, seem to have little problem with spending a lot of money per year to keep a person incarcerated: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-prison-costs-201706...
But they will balk at taxpayer money being used for preventative programs which intend to stop people from becoming addicted to hard drugs (heroin/opiates, meth, cocaine) in the first place, and also balk at paying money for treatment of current addicts.