Staying clean at Main and Hastings

I heard about this from Eby's blog but have since read this thorough article from the Globe.
This part sounds good:

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside will soon have 20 new beds to give female prostitutes a safe place to turn as they kick the vicious drug addictions that forced them into the survival sex trade

Not nearly enough beds, of course, but way better than nothing. However the program is "abstinent-based (sic)" and located in the Roosevelt Hotel, right beside the Carnegie Centre at Main and Hastings.
For those unfamiliar with this famous corner, it's pretty much an illegal pharmacy free-for-all. Not that I'm knocking it, but it's pretty easy to get sucked into doing a hoot here, there and everywhere.
So, this will either turn into a failure, or the Portland Hotel Society, who run the Roosevelt, will pressure the feds - who are funding this program - into being less forceful.