For example, there's good evidence that an effective treatment for heroin abuse disorder is prescription (safe) heroinhttps://www.bmj.com/content/327/7410/310 …
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Safe injecting spaces - while counter-intuitive because you're assisting people in taking drugs - are arguably the most effective way to reduce the harms of some illegal drugshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5685449/ …
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While it's a complex relationship to untangle, there's quite compelling evidence that providing high-quality healthcare to prisoners saves money and reduces crimehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7113431/ …
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Conversely, cashless welfare, which is popular because we love to moralise about what people do with the money the govt gives them, are very unlikely to achieve their stated aimshttps://theconversation.com/theres-mounting-evidence-against-cashless-debit-cards-but-the-government-is-ploughing-on-regardless-123763 …
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So honestly I find it completely unsurprising that, it some cases, the cheapest thing to do for homeless people is to give them money, even if that seems counter-intuitive to some
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Not even close to being peer reviewed..........
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