Rehabilitation centres can often prove not useful to addicts, with many often relapsing once treatment is completed

By relapsing and falling into old habits, they are just as likely to die from overdose or disease as they were before treatment. By introducing safe havens, this gives addicts a safe place to take drugs, treating them humanely, as they are still human despite addictions. Unfortunately people will only become clean once they feel ready, so they should be given a chance to take drugs safely until they are ready to enter a rehab programme. Also by taking drugs in a safe clean place may reduce the novelty and deviancy of drugs, encouraging more people to stay away from drugs entirely