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Scumandvillany t1_jcad2wd wrote

The cognition deficit needed to drool out "but muh safe injection sites tho" in response to the need to make an entire neighborhood of tens of thousands of people and children safe and clean is staggering. "It's inhumane to mandate treatment/shelter"--nah bro. What's inhumane is to allow children of working class people to have to deal with this trauma daily and being told the solution is to have a warehouse where half of street addicts can shoot up safely but most will still shoot up on the street, and even if all of them DID use SIS, you're still gonna have to deal with the trash, feces, tents, bent over kenzo yoga, your parks and rec centers will still be open air shelters and that's too bad because addicts deserve to be respected.

The sheer absurdity of this line of thinking is astounding.

Most normal, common sense people who work for a living see through this bullshit for what it is. Ivory tower logic applied to real world conditions.

MANDATORY TREATMENT AND SHELTER FOR PERSONS SUFFERING FROM ADDICTION

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ICanSeeRoundCorners t1_jcbvtfb wrote

Addicts already have no freedom; mandatory treatment is a chance for them to get it back.

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CockercombeTuff t1_jcbm1nw wrote

Imagine saying "the best way to help alcoholics is by giving them free, government paid for alcohol and a place to vomit until they make the personal decision to be sober." Staggering the lengths people will go to justify their hypotheses.

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libananahammock t1_jcbiz75 wrote

I highly suggest listening to this multi part podcast by Reveal News. They do amazing investigative journalism on many topics but their work on American Rehabs has lead to many, many lawsuits and federal investigations since it aired.

Reveal exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid, shadow workforce.

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Scumandvillany t1_jcblu7c wrote

I've already read that. Just because some psychopaths have some niche "treatment" does not mean we cannot develop an open and transparent approach to involuntary commitment. I'm not saying bring on nurse ratchet, but some sort of mental illness/addiction treatment approach combined with therapy and housing is obviously the way forward.

Simply put, we cannot allow people to live like they are living on the streets of Kensington. How we should go about rectifying that is up for some discussion.

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