of not treating drug addicts and alcoholics is far greater than the potential death of a woman whose family can't handle the fact that she is not a virgin. Sure maybe that will save a court case and the cost of imprisonment if her father or brothers kill her, but then do we really need to be protecting someone from themselves that is really capable of doing that? My point is these "honour murderers" don't go out and cost the larger society much money, and drug addicts and alcoholics do. In my view it is one of how best to spend the public's money to treat our health problems and protect us from larger social ills.