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Those are very valid points You make and apparently one's that tend to be withheld from the public. As long as these people can get away with that type of behavior it will continue.

I couldn't agree more, Ann . . .

Sgt (Join to see) Tragic all the way around. There are failures in the system too that seem to encourage addiction.
In some places cities are building tiny home communities to put individual homeless folks in (they have to meet standards, no drugs) with a shared area inside and outside..
My heart goes out to Street Kids, many runaways, not necessarily into drugs. They won't stay in shelters either because they try to return them home, or put them in foster homes, and the didn't take well to proselytizing.
In WA state (a few decades back) someone (from the city probably) gave a parking meter key to one of the kids in the area where I lived, and they would open the meters to get the coins so they at least had food to eat. They would also steal things and the local "fence" would buy them, or surreptitiously provide a room in the house he managed in the University area that had been changed into a place where mostly college students rented. One of the kids showed me the room where he stashed all the stuff they brought to him.

LTC (Join to see) “President Biden doesn't stop the fentanyl from coming in, as well not stopping illegal aliens” -THATS ON PURPOSE! ALL the Democrats’ liberal destructive decisions foisted upon Americans since Obama are not an accident. People should dig deep and ask WHY.

In the Past, I did work for a number of the groups that supported the local homeless shelters. The problem goes far beyond addiction. A huge part of it is simply because we decided to close psychiatric resident facilities for all but the most violent because most mentally ill patients weren't "dangerous". They also aren't capable of caring for themselves. At the local shelters, my best guess is at least 40% are mentally ill and unable to cope with society, and a lot of those self medicate. The rest are either drug addicts or alcoholics. A large portion of the mentally ill will end up in prisons.

So we closed resident facilities and throw them in jail instead.

CPT Lawrence Cable same situation in Canada. They closed the mental hospitals..

It's certainly a sad commentary on our society . . .

Very true, Rick. I was on morphine for seven years when my primary care doc came up with a plan to put me on Buprenorphine instead. The hitch was that I had to go into withdrawal before I could start taking the new drug. Wow! I had no idea how horrible it is. I will never again think ill of a junkie trying to give it up. I went through hell for four days. Then, after I had my right knee replaced in Feb. '11, they put me back on morphine.
I finally went to my VA primary care in 2023 and asked to go back on Buprenorphine if they had come up with an easier way than going cold turkey. Turns out they had, so I did it in January of '23 without any problems. . . .