I am a fully licensed social worker who's worked directly in the homelessness sector, and I fully agree that giving to the providers is going to maximize the impact. It's also quite true that many folks out there are making choices based on the rules that they want to follow. Sadly, many, many of these rules are based on archaic, punitive systems of help, where every person who's involved gets to judge you on the way through. They need to be fixed. There's also a significant limit that exists in terms of people's belief in their own capacity. In my career, I've narcanned a greater number of people than those I've met who actually have Antisocial Personality Disorder or something similar.