Yes, overcoming their addiction is the ultimate goal but sometime we have to settle for something less than best.
But what if the clinics makes things worse by enabling addictions? The first thing any relative of an addict is taught that they must not enable the addiction because enabling the addiction prolongs the addiction. Why would SIS be any different? Everyone wants to jump on the "lives saved" statistic because it is easy to measure and makes great headlines, however, it is a smoke screen. To make progress we must save lives by getting people clean.