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You're right, but that's not a reason to close safe injection sites. Generally, we need to stop treating addicts like criminals. Addiction is a disease, and the corrective action is healthcare.
Yes but policy makers HATE to acknowledge that poverty and social issues underlie many of our problems.
That's too complicated. The easy answer is that addicts are bad evil people who deserve to live in misery and agony and any kindness towards them is an act of moral weakness.
/s for contextually impaired.