People who live in homes already do drugs. Yes, even the hard ones, and nobody is trying to shove required treatment down their throats and derailing the conversation from something that's been studied extensively ad a solution.
I do believe that there should be super robust case management, mental health treatment, detox, recovery, needle exchanges programs etc. For people who transition back into housing for sure. These are all things that are severely lacking, but giving someone a place to shelter makes it way way easier to even want to engage with that stuff in the first place. Being homeless means only being able to think 10 minutes ahead and if they want treatment now but a bed isn't open (which it isn't often), then they are on to the next thing to survive.
People who live in homes already do drugs. Yes, even the hard ones, and nobody is trying to shove required treatment down their throats
That's because the housed drug users generally aren't causing problems that impact the rest of society to the extent the vagrants do. Theyre only fucking upmtheir own lives, not other people's. Furthermore, the number of homeless drug users is hugely disproportional to the number of housed drug users.
Okay and your point of it being disproportional is??? If you also count people who smoke weed and drink alcohol in there I'm sure it's not that disproportionate. Wonder how many housed drunk drivers kill people or start fist fights compared to how many homeless substance users kill folks or start fist fights?
They poop in their on house instead of outside
offices like here. They don’t leave needles outside where people can get poke. Including children with their bare foot in the summer.
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u/puppyxguts Aug 04 '22
People who live in homes already do drugs. Yes, even the hard ones, and nobody is trying to shove required treatment down their throats and derailing the conversation from something that's been studied extensively ad a solution.
I do believe that there should be super robust case management, mental health treatment, detox, recovery, needle exchanges programs etc. For people who transition back into housing for sure. These are all things that are severely lacking, but giving someone a place to shelter makes it way way easier to even want to engage with that stuff in the first place. Being homeless means only being able to think 10 minutes ahead and if they want treatment now but a bed isn't open (which it isn't often), then they are on to the next thing to survive.