[cameldrv]

People say that treatment is the solution, but a fentanyl or meth addiction is like being involved in a terrible car crash. You give people back surgery and physical therapy and accommodations at work, but it's extremely expensive and most of them will never be the same afterwards, and a lot of them die. This was the situation in the 60s with cars, and it's the situation today with serious drugs. You have to prevent the car crash and you have to prevent addiction to these drugs, or you wind up with a ton of broken people that we can't really fix.

[Gud]

Yes, and a huge part of that is treating users of heavy drugs(coke, opiates)while they are still functioning individuals.

That means removing the stigma around the usage, accept that these individuals either will quit using these substances themselves by supporting them, or that they will be users until their (probably) untimely passing by again supporting them.

Making it a police matter is not the solution.

[DougN7]

That’s a great analogy