A lot of people in this thread keep talking about how clinics like Insite enable users by preventing them from hitting rock bottom and thus not forcing them to make much needed changes in their lives. I think subscribers to this line of thinking aren't fully appreciating that Insite serves as much a public health function as it is designed to help individual users. It's not just about helping the individual addicts (though this is obviously a huge part of it), it's also about trying to limit the amount of damage they do to others (and by extension, the DTES as a community of persons) by spreading illness.
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