[jaggednad]

What business is it of yours if your neighbor is doing heroin? We could get people off the streets if we gave them treatment. A drug addicts are sick; Locking them in jail shouldn’t be the answer

[wow_why]

Homeless are the symptoms, not the disease

[pessimizer]

The disease is kleptocracy, not drug addiction.

[jimbob45]

Easy to say when it’s not your neighbor. Come back to me when you’re letting your daughter walk home from school past the junkie house.

[nine_k]

If junkies get their fix, it's literally the only thing they care about. It's them not being able to support their habit with a day job what makes them reckless and dangerous.

If junkies receive their fix from medical authorities, along with a treatment helping them to quit, they even have a hope to become in-addicted again.

Of course, arresting or maybe outright killing a junkie would instantly remove any threat to the neighbors. It just requires stopping to see the junkie as a human in need of help and start seeing the junkie as a violent criminal or even non-human. I wonder if such an approach is sort of dangerous for the society's mental health.