Reply #11: or the alternative [View All]

[MrPrax]

"I am beleive you have to let people get sick, get arrested, sell their souls and their bodies so that they hit bottom and finally decide to get well." or die, or get killed or end up in jail at a prohibitvely higher social cost with no treatment...

Just like sex...drugs...and People are still doing it
Tough love don't work...
liked the first part though,
"Are they assuming because these people shoot up there that they will then be capable of making good choices at other times and places?"

In a facility like this they are much more likely to be reached by user-counselling, health folks, recovery and treatment people than say in an alley somewhere...

But your right it is a stop-gap measure and I don't think anyone pushing this harm-redcution center is saying it's cure to a complicated social and economic problem