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Old 10-20-2017, 01:36 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by rubecube View Post
You can't just make it a mandatory strings attached thing or addicts just will go elsewhere. You can offer it, but trying to push treatment on someone usually doesn't go well.
My hope (and expectation) is that anybody running these understands that there is a right and a wrong way to approach treatment. "Pushing" treatment is a much worse tactic than simply making it available. Addicts already get judged at every turn and are made to feel sub-human, so anything preachy will – as you noted – go over poorly. I think for a lot of addicts they want a place that can watch them for 20 minutes to make sure the drugs they've just used weren't more harmful than intended.
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