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Originally Posted by Sliver
But I'm saying no housewives are going to drop off their kids at school and then head over to shoot up at the corner safe-injection site. There is way too much reputational risk that nobody is going to take. They're not going to out themselves as a drug addict, risk losing their kids and they're not going to even think of themselves as the type of person that needs to go there.
I think it's a naïve plan that obviously won't do anything. Safe sites in a community like fricken Tuscany is beyond ridiculous. If you can afford to live there and buy drugs on the regular, you can afford to get yourself into detox. A safe site does nothing to help this problem in this scenario.
It's the UCP's fault government-run drug dens didn't work? Okay, I hate UCP as much as the next liberal, but let's be real here...setting up safe sites to draw drug addicts to a centralized place always came with a bit of a risk. Risks that are obvious, but hey, let's try it out anyway. But c'mon, they don't work and, again, are kicking the can down the road, which is the exact thing you claim to not want to do.
You remain mixed up on the order of these things. People are starting out in a home, then are getting addicted to drugs, and then become homeless. You don't turn to drugs because you are homeless; you turn to homelessness because you are on drugs. Giving them a house doesn't reverse the process; you have to get off the drugs before having a home will work.
No, they're keeping people addicted to drugs, creating more drug use (keeping people alive to keep buying drugs, which increases supply, which leads to more people addicted, etc.). We need to get these people into treatment, which has to involve institutionalization - that will save lives. Just feeding them drugs - without a doubt - is not helping this issue lol.
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People are going to use drugs. That's a fact. Part of why deaths spiked in 2020 was a lack of safe supply as a result of the pandemic. If people ARE going to use they should have access to a safe supply that lowers their risk of dying from a toxic OD etc.
Lots of working folks with houses use drugs and alcohol to excess. They're dying too. Just look at all the stories of folks in groups like Moms Stop the Harm etc. It really seems like your major issue is the visible of those with crap material conditions that cause disorder.
Also suggesting that every drug user experiencing homeless starts in a house then uses drugs and ends up on the streets, as a result, isn't a universal experience. Poverty is a generational cycle that's extremely hard to break, especially in our mode of late stage capitalism.
You fundamentally think I'm an idiot it seems, so I don't think we're changing each other's mind. I belive strongly your unwillingness to listen experts on Harm Reduction and they way you stigmatize folks who use drugs prevents you from listening them (I am not one of them, but they have informed my persepctive)