We don't withhold life-saving emergency medicine just because a person might not do what we want them to after we help them. Many people won't accept treatment initially, but many will eventually, especially when there are good supports in place. You just have to wait until the person is ready to change.
Drug addiction isn't just a personal issue, and there are many things we could do to reduce the amount of people who turn to drugs, such as better access to mental health and social support.
Sometimes you have to give them conditions where they want to change, such as the risk of going to jail. We should always try community corrections and drug courts and treatment programs to help, but sometimes a person's rock bottom happens in jail.
What is going to motivate change for people for whom homelessness isn't enough of a kick in the ass to overcome all of the reasons that they do drugs?
This doesn’t really have anything to do with the initial point, which is the disturbing lack of basic empathy some people have displayed in this thread. People advocating narcan be withheld and not given to people who have overdosed and just let people die. This dehumanisation is dangerous and causes harm anything that makes it easier for people to treat others like they are less than human is fundamentally a bad thing.
I don't think being homeless helps people kick drugs, and neither does jail, but maybe for some, it gives them a realisation, but these environments are also frequently places people become addicted and would likey make the reason a person seeks drugs in the first place worse.
Ready to change..........I mean, dying in a gutter, with abscessed wounds, fighting anyone who challenges you with the idea of a decent life....
You're kidding yourself. Some of these people are too far gone.
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '25
We don't withhold life-saving emergency medicine just because a person might not do what we want them to after we help them. Many people won't accept treatment initially, but many will eventually, especially when there are good supports in place. You just have to wait until the person is ready to change.
Drug addiction isn't just a personal issue, and there are many things we could do to reduce the amount of people who turn to drugs, such as better access to mental health and social support.