I teach at the university of washington, and have lived in the U distric on and off for the past 10 years. If you think ave-rats are the only people in the neighborhood shooting and smoking dope, you are out of your mind. And really, who gives a fuck about their backgrounds? Dopefiends come from all sorts of money and poverty, and realistically, helping out individuals in those types of situations is only a positive thing for the neighborhood. It lowers crime rates, it makes the neighborhood more pleasent, and if the only side effect is helping out the occasional kid who grew up with money and has fucked off their life, thats sort of a good thing in my view.