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Originally Posted by jayswin
Oh yeah, I think the average citizen forgets that the main point of safe injection sites is to decrease the spread of disease and death and to help people in a centralized area when overdoses occur.
It's about saving human lives, while I feel too many are falsely looking for drug crime/use to decrease as a result. That change would mostly have to come from better access and quality mental health care. Which I don't think we'll be seeing any time soon.
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I think what actually needs to be done is build affordable housing with low-barrier access to healthcare and treatment options.
We could solve this problem tomorrow if we were willing to devote even a small percentage of health budgets to it, but we aren't.