Every impact story photo is: "Beautiful place covered in dirty drug paraphernalia". It's the same train of thought when people here describe homelessness in big

Every impact story photo is: "Beautiful place covered in dirty drug paraphernalia". It's the same train of thought when people here describe homelessness in big cities. "They're sleeping in our public spaces!" If you want undesirables to go away, you have to give them somewhere to go. A better life or at least a safe place. Moving them on solves nothing. As another comment reiterates, Portugal had a good start but then gutted the social support funding. A huge part of that has to be giving people a way out, so that drug taking isn't the default for the down and out. Decriminalisation is a good first step but not on its own.