SEATTLE IS DYING
In this YouTube video a tele journalist explores the causes and effects of homelessness and also the solution. He says that the greatest cause is drug and alcohol addiction. Homelessness is in fact a euphemism for addiction.
The answer is enforcement and intervention. It is against most city ordinances to urinate or defecate in public or use drugs, all things practically that define homelessness and that violate our own rights as citizens rights so we need to enforce our laws. We cannot stop there, however. We cannot just arrest our way out of the problem
The next step is intervention. We have to offer these individuals a choice, either incarceration or rehabilitation with Medical Assisted Therapy. That is Suboxone Methadone or Vivitrol along with counseling, inpatient and outpatient care. We need not more prisons but more treatment centers.
Swords to plowshares.
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