the part where smarmy lemmy posters recoil but people with actual drug addiction experience think "hey, yea thats a good idea". did you guys know there's a reason you aren't in charge?
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It's what needs to happen.
People who can not abide by the social contract (whether by mental illness, addiction, or otherwise) can not be given the same freedom as people who can. They will likely abuse it for their own destructive aims. They need to be forced into rehabilitation, or, if they can't be rehabilitated, a separate housing place.
But...
Those services they need are either overwhelmed or don't really exist in many places, because none of us taxpayers want to spend the money to actually build them, or allow them next to our house. Which is fucked up. And it's clear that nobody is going to willingly increase their taxes to do something about it. So, what then?
I think it needs to be declared like wartime. Set aside a certain area, get as many help people as possible, and move these people over to basically a modified refugee camp, with what basically amounts to martial law to keep the peace as much as they can. Yes, it'll be tents and sleeping bags, which is not good, but they need something. Don't be like the NYC hospital law that sends them in for three days and lets them go back out to the street, because that helps nobody.