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[quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]We will not make any progress until we are willing the be completely honest about the effectiveness of drug treatment programs[/b]. 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]

Correct. Truth be told, the efficacy of drug treatment programs doesn't seem to be much better than the criminal justice response. But at least the criminal justice response spares non-users from being traumatized by drug users by getting them out of the public sphere.[/quote]

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