That sounds about half a step off of a forced labor camp.

Devil's in the details. There's been a shift in the last couple of years in attitudes about whether it is compassionate or appropriate to let people choose to avoid treatment. Especially for conditions that affect people's capacity for making those kinds of decisions, such as severe mental issues or deep drug dependencies. Like this article, entitled "California is Tired of Letting People Die."

The general consensus in America has long been that people, regardless of how ill they are, should be given the greatest possible degree of autonomy. Now many political leaders—including the governor of California and the mayor of San Francisco—are acknowledging that Californians are dying in the streets from the freedom they’ve been afforded.

Those politicians are turning to what seems to be the only option left: forcing those who can’t take care of themselves into long-term involuntary treatment through a legal mechanism called conservatorship. In July, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for “shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings” to restore public order. A few weeks later, the mayor of New York City announced his intention to force more drug users off the streets without consent.

https://archive.ph/QSsPs#selection-807.116-811.499

It is a really hard, complicated problem fraught with all kinds of ethical and moral issues. Homeless advocates are skeptical of this approach, as are those who recall the horrors of some of the institutions back in the 1970's and earlier. But there is something of a recognition that letting someone slowly kill themselves with drugs on the city streets, or leaving a severely dysfunctional person crippled with mental illness to fend for themselves by letting them refuse help, isn't compassionate or always in the best interests of the person involved.