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Originally Posted by Yamer
Involuntary intervention can often be a first step. However, involuntary treatment is a soothing solution to lazy and simple-minded people that like to think they're helping, but in fact have never had a brighter resolving thought beyond what equates to "lock 'em up".
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I agree with this. I think safe consumption sites are similar. Done alone, it's just giving someone a safer/warmer place to perpetuate their misery.
We need a national response to this on all fronts, but won't get it due to a fracturing of all of the services and policies needed to provide a true solution being fractured across multiple levels of government here.
I also agree with Makarov that at this point I just want someone to try something new and hopefully be humble enough to recognize we'll need to learn and adapt along the way. The status quo is failing people in an egregious and painful manner.