Everyone seeks a good biological feedback. pleasure not pain. As long as the MOP get pleasure [cost free] from getting free help, then not a thing will change. People do not seek conventional pain as a reward, but pain to most is a pain ,it hurts, but to a few { 5/10%} that what 80% call pain is pleasurable. Thus for the perpetual drunk, Hospital bed or P. cell be better than sleeping on ice, but there will be an exception as it is possible there be one that does like cold [yuk]. A possible solution would be for some to go a morgue and let them the sleep it off next to poor mangled RTA. [Guess not PC] Fining is usually not a help as only the tax payer pays twice. Here in La La land it costs me 4 days income to have an ambulance ride, and another 2 months income plus hours to lie in wait for "me" Vitals to be taken, so it be best for me to be semi comatose and sleep off "me" 'angove' or have very good reason to visit an ER. Many blue moons ago in the days of the cane, my fellow class mates came in 3 styles, 1, show the cane and the water works were at full tilt [they be the sissies], 2, the stoic ones, take 3 wacks then grin and bear it then in private would yell blue words, then there be THE one, that would get 12 wacks and would just laugh in the face of the giver then go round show us weaker ones the results and brag. Punishments and rewards have to adjusted to the Individual. 1000 quid fine for speeding for Millionaire is laughable [risible] but to one that gets peanuts it is a disaster. 'Tis why the rich get richer. All time wasters should made to clean up vomit and gore with a teaspoon.