At least LePage is being consistent in his denigration of drug addicts.
Unlike the rest of the Republican Party, which wanted to be "tough on those drug-using hooligans" for 50 years until the hooligans started to be white people in the suburbs, who of course must be treated with compassion and second/third/fourth chances.
If I'm not mistaken the heroin addict population has been predominately White since the late 1960s.
Heroin was much more of a counterculture drug until the overprescription of opiates in the 1990s and 2000s fueled a boom a few years later. Heroin users were always whiter, but before that boom, they weren't nearly as common nor sympathetically middle-class.
LePage is obviously trying to ruin some botched variant of the "let them hit rock bottom" argument, but even that is dangerous and misguided. By the time someone is in the position to get revived by a cop with Narcan, they're already close enough to bottom that they're willing to potentially die for their drug of choice. The idea that addicts go "well, it's OK to use because someone might have Narcan," but would otherwise stop using, is totally ridiculous.
LePage is probably being a moralist, not a sadist like the title indicates, but in this case moralism will have a body count.
