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Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby
But that's just it. It doesn't do more harm than good. Generally speaking, if you access to safe supply, and are using at a safe use site, you likely won't need NARCAN. I feel very confused because when I say we need to look at housing first, you disagree, but then you agree folks shouldn't have to be unhoused. So let's say someone wants to enter treatment and there is a bed a public facility. They're clean, they get out of treatment, where do they go? Likely keep living on the street and likely using again.
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I think it needs to go like this:
1. Try to get clean yourself using your own resources. That is, I'm not in favour of just snatching people off the streets because they yelled at a guy in South Centre Mall or jumped on a car once. How do we track these people to potentially establish either a pattern of behaviour or a one-off episode? Don't know, but we can figure that out.
2. If they can't get clean, institutionalize them.
3. Get clean while institutionalized.
4. Half-way house.
5. Low-cost housing/free housing with strings (i.e. stay clean).
So yes, shelter is a critical component of this, but providing shelter without first ensuring people are clean is just a recipe to concentrate troublesome people in one place and that will lead to more problems.