People who do drugs make a choice to do it. No one is forcing them. The War on Drugs has been an even more abysmal failure than the War in Afghanistan.
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60-80 percent of addicts self-cure in a decade.
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Drug addiction is a Public Health problem, not a criminal justice problem. Prohibition doesn’t work: arresting uses doesn’t work not does arresting dealers. It never has and there are literally reams of studies backing this up.
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Harm reduction doesn't work. Neither does throwing up your hands and doing nothing.
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Harm Reduction saves lives, but it doesn’t reduce addiction. I think that helps but you might differ.
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What do you propose? Prohibition doesn’t work. Arresting drug dealers doesn’t work.
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2/2 Then make a mental health and drug and alcohol facility out in the Bayview with all that land and put the people who are a harm to themselves and the public in them. Then make tiny homes in the area for people to transition into. While giving them jobs in the facility.
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It is not clear to me why the residents of the Bayview should have to bear the burden of dealing with a bunch of addicts. There is no reason except tradition that the TL should have to deal with them either though.
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If it's a medical facility to treat people if this is the goal, how is that a burden? Also, you can build it anywhere just freaking build it. If all these so called programs work, we should have less crime, less homeless. But...we don't, results speak for themselves.
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There is limited amounts of public money that we have to spend. I would personally rather see most of it go to people down on their luck and the mentally ill homeless first. If we can get a big bang for our buck, treating addicts might be worth it.
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If dollar per benefit is truly your concern, why not encourage the city to provide outpatient opioid treatment via outreach. Cheap. Scales. No excuse.https://twitter.com/stuz5000/status/1400862824214106115 …
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