Merely agreeing with your position; lived in Lethbridge amongst students and watched extreme alcohol abuse and other shenanigans that would have been considered undesirable if it was happening in public... But it isn't because there's a difference when people are housed versus not.
The point being that most of the complaints of unhoused populations aren't actually worries about the health dangers of opioid addiction... Their vague gestures toward what is seen as undesirable behavior. And off of that behavior is only undesirable because it's visibly public.
The result is a completely different approach to public health. Students end up in the hospital with their stomachs pumped; laugh about it the next day. Those suffering opiate addictions are treated as inherently criminal and unworthy of support by many. The norms are completely different.
Happy to delete my comments and not engage if you think all conversations need to be buttressed by stats at all times.