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> Habitual drug addicts don't have personal responsibility, family support, or a community of non-drug addicts to depend on. survivorship_bias_plane.png There
by enragedcacti 3y ago
> Habitual drug addicts don't have personal responsibility, family support, or a community of non-drug addicts to depend on.
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There are millions of habitual hard drug users that do have some personal responsibility, some family support, some sober people around them encouraging them. They are holding down jobs and paying for their own housing, they've already quit multiple times but have gotten pulled back in. For those people forced incarceration could maybe solve their addiction at the cost of their housing and their job.
- lazide 3y agoThe forced incarceration is more about trying to tactically solve the specific pain point (people doing drugs on a doorstep), not solving the bigger problem. Which even trying to agree on what the bigger problem is, near as I can tell, is impossible.