Since hard drugs are illegal, we should be rounding these people up and removing them from society. I don't think they should go to jail, though. Let's make a jail/hospital hybrid. Counselling must be completed and you have to be sober for, IDK, 90 days before release. The rehab areas will be out of town in the middle of a field.
Letting these guys stagger around grossing out the rest of us is not working. They're killing themselves, they're detracting from the city and its livability, and safe injections sites are accomplishing diddly squat.
These hard drugs are insane. I've seen somebody go completely down the toilet after using them until they died. I'm fine with funding this through tax dollars, although we need a plan B for the guys that don't get/stay clean. My wife's suggestion is to load them all up on a cruise ship under the guise of a vacation, then sinking the boat once it gets nice and deep. Not sure if there is the appetite for that, though.
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