You don't even need to be a cynic -- when you're addicted, the addiction comes first. First, before food, sleep, shelter, family and health.

The idea of giving cash is, frankly, asinine. The objective is not to increase the recipients spending power, but to reduce health problems population wide, reducing expensive medical interventions and productivity-draining disability.

Do you have a source to back up this assertion - in particular “many poor people?”