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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
any effective solution will require people to be detained in some fashion and removed from these places when conducting this behavior whether that be the police, mental health personnel, addictions treatment personnel . . . whoever. There's no end game solution to these problems that don't have this level of intervention at the very end of the flow chart regardless of how many offshoots and steps we take between.
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For the aggressive/crime-committing ones, this is absolutely the only solution. Get them directly off the streets/LRT stations/etc and get them into facilities where they can get the help they need (mental health, detox, etc). Sooner or later society will realize this is what needs to happen... hopefully it's sooner rather than later. Taxes will need to go way up to pay for it, but people will have to decide would you rather pay more taxes to actually deal with the problem in a proper way, or would you rather see the problem continue to get worse?
For addicts who aren't committing crimes, the way to help them is to substantially increase affordable housing (perhaps including temporarily free housing) and availability to mental health services. Again, massively expensive, and only happens if society is willing to tolerate big tax increases. I'm in favor of it, but worry that our society won't be anytime soon.