San Francisco ties welfare to drug-screening, boosts police powers in stunning tough-on-crime shift - eviltoast
  • braxy29@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    beyond that forced treatment is ethically questionable, conditioning other forms of help on sobriety puts people in a bind. it’s hard for people to get and stay sober when they’re suffering, physically and mentally.

    housing/food/health care (to include mental health and psychiatric care) first means it’s more likely that efforts toward sobriety will even work.

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      8 months ago

      conditioning other forms of help on sobriety puts people in a bind.

      This bill explicitly does not do that.