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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
If you move an addict into a home does the addict stop being an addict?
How many of the homeless people walking around are waiving their ability to level 1 on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and NOT addicts? I'd wager... maybe 5-10% max. If that even?
So, building houses is a stop-gap, short-term, non-permanent, bandaid fix that will not stop the real problem which is, of course, addiction.
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No it doesn’t but you have an addict with an address, protection from the elements and a safe drug supply. This gives you the ability to offer other services. I wonder if while we work on other issues is it cheaper to house addicts and supply them with drugs is known doses and happily subsidize the problem to reduce social disorder.
Effectively the old asylum model with just a little more freedom.
The goal being the lowest cost solution to the social disorder challenges and not the addiction challenges.