New York's drug epidemic solutions are, well, New York

Yeah rehab would be ideal for everyone but unfortunately you cant force ppl to go to rehab, people have to want to make that change themselves or they never will. Crazy as it seems to give a junkie more drugs at least the ones they're giving them aren't laced with phentonyl (which is whats causing the majority of the overdoses)
I was against this too at first, then when i learned that little detail (about the phentonyl laced drugs goung around) it makes a little bit of illogical sense.

Most street drugs are laced with something... so I'm told. If getting cleaner drugs into their systems to avoid overdose is a goal, why not make it contingent on something that will do them some good? Something that will eventually get them off the drug, even if it's a long term plan? No specifics, of course. Just spit ballin' here.

Yeah some drugs are laced with stuff, usually harmless stuff though thats put in just to stretch the product and make the dealer more profit, but not phentonyl (which would cost them more money to but and put in the mix) thats being done deliberately to make it more addictive

But I agree its not the best solution, its like putting a bandaid on a bullethole, just saying i see SOME good intentions behind the thought of it

*to buy

I've heard stories, which I've never bothered to check for accuracy, about street drugs being cut with things like rat poison. That seems counter intuitive, right? Even drug addicts probably wouldn't buy from someone who had tried to poison them. Hell, even that may not be true. Drug addiction makes people do things that no rational person could ever truly understand.

I can understand wanting to get them off the street. Living there is simply inhumane. But to do so without also trying to help them, seems like a waste to me. And as long as I'm in a mood to spend other people's money, I would only spend it on programs like that if there was a similar amount spent on prevention. Once they become a junkie, there is very little time to pull them back. Yes, just my uneducated opinion. But the waste in human potential that goes with drug addiction makes it worth the spending, imo, to try and prevent it from happening in the first place. Assuming of course, that we can identify the actual cause, and then come up with an actual prevention.

That's correct, you can't force people into rehab, but you can give felons an option to go to rehab instead of prison. For that, you need to enforce existing laws, prosecute people who break these laws, and then give them an option to get help. This method has helped thousands, until woketards thought they were helping by letting addicts keep shooting up.

And i get that too, i understand the downsides of it perfectly well, and i don't have anyone in my life with an addiction like this but i feel like if i did (and couldnt get the rehab to stick) id rather have them hooked on (clean) junk then hooked on junk that could kill them at any possible next fix. Like i said rehab for everyone would be ideal but some people really have no one in their lives that care enough to convince them of it and they damn sure dont care enough about themselves to convince themselves to go, and yeah people get caught in crimes, judge orders them to rehab, they go just to appease the courts and not go to jail, then soon as they complete their court ORDERED requirements (most are) they're right back to their junk because people have to wanna change themselves, all the laws and enforcing of the laws will never change that

Then they go to prison. Make choices, live with the consequences. Taking away consequences over bad choices doesn't help anyone, it leads to more crime, more crime victims, and more overdoses.