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While true, I'm not certain that drug overdoses directly correlates with homelessness, which is what I think the parent was highlighting.

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > I'm not certain that drug overdoses directly correlates with homelessness, No, but it does correlate with drug addiction. > which is what I think the parent was highlighting. They were attempting to insinuate that the homelessness problem.in California was due to “literal armies of drug addicts” and not prosperity combined with economic inequality resulting in housing price out of reach of more of the lower end of the working class than is the case in the country as a whole. The real nature of California’s homelessness problem makes this law largely irrelevant to it, and vice versa.
• zucker42 5y ago
  The parent claimed without proof that California has a huge drug problem. I interpreted this to be part of an argument that this measure would contribute to this purported drug problem. But the first question I asked was "is California's drug problem indeed worse than other states", and the first objective metric I thought of was deaths by overdose. The context of this exchange in a larger strain of debate is there is a long running caricature of California as a failed state with rampant problems, based partially on the truth, but usually perpetuated and exaggerated by people from out of state with a political agenda. California has a huge problem with homelessness and COL, but I interpret this as mainly caused by terrible housing policies, and am skeptical of people who conclude that this means California's policies and/or culture are generally terrible. Specifically, in this case, homelessness in CA in an insufficient reason for me to conclude that CA is heading the wrong direction on drug policy.