[glenda]

70k per year is less than we spend keeping someone in prison, which is where many people believe we should put drug addicts. The truth is it’s not about the money, people just don’t want to see other people suffering where they live.

As a society, even spending all this money, we are failing to help some of our most vulnerable citizens. It’s quite telling that conversations about social safety nets always become about money rather than reducing harm effectively.

[nick__m]

I think that opiate addict should be freely provided with a stable quality supply as long they want, something like that https://mysafe.org/ .

[jessriedel]

No where in the article does the author bring up taxes or the cost per tax payer. The entire focus of the article is on the effect on the homeless person.