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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In all honesty, it was a questionable idea with a poor roll out.

If we had the health infrastructure to treat people, it is possible that it could have worked. The read problem is that we have a for profit healthcare system, and [b]drug treatment is not profitable. [/b]Mental health treatment has similar barriers. Nobody wants to fix this part of the problem.  [/quote]

What? The bolded is flat-out untrue. Drug and alcohol treatment is enormously profitable, so much so that private equity is pouring into it and they are snapping up treatment centers.

https://www.marketplace.org/2023/01/25/private-equity-investment-is-flooding-into-addiction-treatment-is-that-a-good-thing/

The problem is that many drug treatment programs are largely useless scams that create a cyclic patient base that boomerang back again and again until the patients OD or otherwise die a gruesome death.

We will not make any progress until we are willing the be completely honest about the effectiveness of drug treatment programs. The progressive left’s vague hand waving about how treatment solves everything is just nonsense meant to route more state money to private equity owned corporations. [/quote]

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