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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let them do drug in shelter so they will stay under a cover, not on the street.[/quote]

If you would like tax dollars to go to free treatment centers, I think you could get support for that. Letting folks do drugs in shelters will not make them safer .[/quote]

Do folks also support getting rid of the home mortgage interest deduction for people who use drugs and alcohol?  There are reasons that people use and I'm going to guess that people living on the street or in shelters have a lot more of those reasons than those of us living in homes.[/quote]
People use drugs because they are addicts. There is also a small subset of addicts who are dual diagnosis, so treatment for mental illness is necessary for the addiction treatment to be effective.

If you are suggesting that people “turn to drugs” or are addicts due to some life trauma, the facts and data just don’t bare that out. You can just test it using a basic syllogism. Drug addicts come from all races and classes and the street addicts obviously have not been on the street their entire life. [/quote]

I fully support involuntary commitment and treatment. Clearly, there is a large gap between who the night shelters "serve" and who is out there on the streets.[/quote]

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