Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by runarberg on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @12:05AM
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Yes, whatever it takes. A society which doesn’t take care of their sick is a failed society. Seattle is the richest city in one of the richest state of the richest country in the world. If we wanted to we could easily take care of anyone that needed it.
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Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by eloisius on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:26AM
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At some point we have to say it takes too much. If it takes 20 college-educated social workers, medical professionals, etc. just to enable one junkie to eek out a miserable existence doing drugs and sleeping on the street, it's too much. Their lifestyle is untenable. On some level, we have to accept that one can fuck up one's own life, and fuck it up so badly that others can't fix or maintain it for you.
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by defrost on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:34AM
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Sure, it's a cost benefit analysis.
More realistically smaller total staff than 20 dealt with 3,800 addicts in an 18 month trial a decade and a half ago with benefits to the community (reduced expenses from deaths, overdoses, central record keeping, etc) that were considered worthwhile to keep such centres going until the present day.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38608095
FINAL REPORT OF THE EVALUATION OF THE SYDNEY MEDICALLY SUPERVISED INJECTING CENTRE
https://www.drugsandalcohol.ie/5706/1/MSIC_final_evaluation_...
might be of interest to some.