I can well understand the reluctance of the general public to fund/assist habitual drunkards. In the club area of our city they've set up an 'SOS Post' ie a portacabin, which opens until the early hours and receives drunken and incapable youngsters. A taxi is called for them, to get them home safely, and trained first-aiders minister to their needs, calling an ambulance if necessary. One Saturday, people were rattling collecting tins to fund this SOS Post, but the remarks they were getting were not complimentary! I didn't contribute. I wondered if the parents of these bibulous youngsters would put anything in the tins? (And yet... I wouldn't want a young lad or girl left paralytic in the snow, dying of hypothermia, alcohol poisoning or drug effects. Don't know what to think...!)