I think some of the issues that is happening here is the non stop revolving door of destruction for everybody involved with a very small group of people.
I struggle with it sometimes but I lean towards the injection site being overall positive for the lives in saves but at the same time the absolute disaster in the area and drug use in general is terrible.
How many business owners need to be affected? How many violent crimes are enough? How many sexual assaults should be allowed? How many homes and cars need to be broken into? How many people who have committed very violent crimes including murder and attempted murder and than are allowed back onto the street should we allow?
A recent conversation I had with one of the managers of the cardiac surgery ward at the Foothill Hospital, a hospital that is responsible for cardiac surgery card for over 2 million people, mentioned that they are being backlogged significantly by drug use. The patients who usually have a long history of drug use and have destroyed their hearts and vessels are in their for surgery at very young ages. Than they are fixed up and before you know it, they are back in the cardiac ward waiting for additional surgery or life saving measures meanwhile the backlog of patients continues to pile up for people who are in urgent need of assistance as well. The amount of resources being dedicated can sometimes be mind blowing and the truth is we have limited resources to deal with it.
I've always thought it would be prudent to round up some addicts and in essence incarcerate them in an addiction treatment facility. Get them clean, give them income support, give them some of the other resources such as mental health, counselling, work and life skills for their new life post addiction. Who would object to this? The people who aren't feeling the wrath of their crimes? The addicts family? Let's get this people actually clean and actually on a better track and improve everybody else's life at the same time.
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