Originally Posted by Steve
Originally Posted by wabigoon
Most homeless people are mentally ill, hard to help them, sad as it is.


I agree that many are mentally ill. But currently the most are drug addicts.

Need to use the homeless lobby's words (against them). Mental illness is a disease. Addiction is a disease. We should treat the mentally ill. We should treat the addicts. If they are so ill that they are living on the streets then they are a threat to themselves and others (read hygiene and things like typhus).

So commit those diseased living on the streets to treatment. If they refuse then jail. If they refuse to stay on treatment, jail.

But living on the streets is not an option.


I think that is the solution but that is buckets and buckets of money, and many if not most of the addicts are going to have a high incident of recidivism, for many this would be a cycle of them getting "cured" and then going back to the streets the moment any adversity struck them.

Last edited by KFWA; 07/01/22.
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