π― Thank you! Devil's going to be in the details. Can you scale this sort of mandated treatment in an effective, lasting and compassionate way? There will be lots of opportunities for abuse and mismanagement. Do we even have enough qualified caregivers to meet the demand?
Don't know until we try. Right now we are mostly either locking people up or not doing anything at all. This is a welcome attempt at a compromise. I'm all for it.
Same. All for trying new ideas. Locking some people up and leaving others on the streets has obviously failed. I just hope the execution of it is done well and cities like San Francisco actually take advantage of the program and enforce the mandated treatment.
Unless a rehab is private, the staff are paid horrendously low wages and put up with a lot of shit. In my experience, probation officers donβt care if people still test + for Meth and Cocaine. Even drug court escorts from jail door to program door and they still bounce.