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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the long-term homeless in DC are mentally ill and many of them do not want to be medicated. I work with them as a case manager. It's not an issue of there not being adequate resources. There are. Many of the clients actively refuse medication. I (often in tandem with a client's family if they are not estranged from family) spend countless hour over months/years trying to convince a person to even try medication (let alone take it consistently). It is often impossible. [/quote] This is what so many people fail to appreciate. We don't actually lack places for people to live off the streets; we lack the ability to force them to go there. This is for good and valid historical reasons based on abuses, but I think we need to balance this and let the pendulum swing back a little on the rights of unhoused populations who refuse the help offered when that refusal infringes on other citizens.[/quote]
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