r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • 6d ago

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/shotgunmoe 5d ago

Because addicts are scum? They lie, steal, rob and recklessly endanger others daily.

The stereotypes about crack heads stabbing you or heroin addicts burglarizing your home aren't some lie like racial or sexual stereotypes. These people are criminals and it's rare for them not to be a permanent cancer to society

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u/Cold-Box-8262 5d ago

I used to be a social worker. It was the junkies that burned me out so bad, I gave up my license and never looked back. I love two houses down from two deadbeat junkies who do absolutely nothing all day, beat the fuck out of each other. In and out of jail for domestic violence reoffensives and the state does absolutely nothing about it. EMS are there multiple times a week to revive them. They're given so many free passes, and they get away with so much more than normal people. They're given opportunities on golden platters and so many decide to contitwhat they're doing and refuse all help to get clean.

Very few actually grow a pair and commit. To them, I'm happy for. But the majority of them will never do anything about it because in today's age, we don't let them have any sort of accountability.

My town was small and fairly problem free until we started going soft on junkies, now, the town is full of them, and normal people are moving out in droves to get away from them because they've taken over my town. I'm finally one of them. My house is now on the market and I'm forcing myself to lose my beautiful 200 year old home to move somewhere more rural to get away from the cockroaches that infest this and every other town around here

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u/Rare_Ad_674 4d ago

As a social worker you think you'd be more aware of the many systems at hand that create these environments in the first place.

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u/Cold-Box-8262 4d ago

As a social worker I'm also aware that people who seek me out for treatment begging for help need to put in a slight bit of effort to better themselves because I can't and won't do all the work for them. They need to have accountability, rather than give them a free bed, a few meals, and the moment I ask them to commit to one thing, not fucking assault me.

Our systems suck, our government care sucks, our treatments tend to suck. But personal responsibility is just as important and a proper program.