San Francisco Enabling Addiction?

[TexasTiger 12,835]

I’ve followed this person a while. Not a conservative. Her take:

Yours?

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Harm reduction does work. Been practiced in Europe for a while now and the evidence is in its favor. 

Our system just has too many holes in it to implement it effectively. 

[TexasTiger 12,835]

22 hours ago, AUDub said:

Harm reduction does work. Been practiced in Europe for a while now and the evidence is in its favor. 

Our system just has too many holes in it to implement it effectively. 

Can you elaborate?

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6 minutes ago, TexasTiger said:

Can you elaborate?

The idea behind the harm reduction model is that you keep them alive and relatively healthy long enough to get them on the path to recovery with proper healthcare and counseling. In much of Europe that's far easier because they view healthcare as a right, mental health and addiction recovery services are more readily available.

Here we've only implemented half the system, the "keeping them alive and relatively healthy" part, and eschewed the "get them on the path to recovery" part. 

A lot of that is structural,  due to the nature of the American criminal justice system and American healthcare. 

[TexasTiger 12,835]

3 minutes ago, AUDub said:

The idea behind the harm reduction model is that you keep them alive and relatively healthy long enough to get them on the path to recovery with proper healthcare and counseling. In much of Europe that's far easier because they view healthcare as a right, mental health and addiction recovery services are more readily available.

Here we've only implemented half the system, the "keeping them alive and relatively healthy" part, and eschewed the "get them on the path to recovery" part. 

A lot of that is structural,  due to the nature of the American criminal justice system and American healthcare. 

Without the other half of the system is San Francisco just facilitating addiction?

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Just now, TexasTiger said:

Without the other half of the system is San Francisco just facilitating addiction?

Likely. I think it's a good faith attempt but doomed to fail. We're just not built for it. 

[icanthearyou 4,462]

I think the real answers lie in a greater sense of humanity with, a decreased sense of political partisanship but,,, we do seem "built for that" either.

We have become a system which is run primarily on the concepts of power and, pure greed.

There is no future, no "better day", no "greater good", when,,, it is all about getting everything you can get today.

There is no future in stupid and greedy.