San Frensicko is so sick it’s a terminal case. And even tourist groups are telling their agents to book them elsewhere. Too much sheet on the streets. Too many aggressive smelly bums. Many are threatening too. Traffic at gridlock most hours day and even now many nights too.
The concept is good. The drug will prevent withdrawal. The drug will not give the addict the high they desire. Addicts will use this drug if they can not get the heroin or fentanyl the really want. This program will fail.
The only program that works is for those that decide they must quit or die. If they reach the point of death and ask for help, they might be saved but it is rare.
For most addicts the solution is simple. Give them clean needles and access to cheap narcotics. Most of this group will self eliminate themselves from society via over dose and this is good. A small fraction will want help and society should help that small fraction.
Those that refuse help are not worthy of societies help. Their demise will make society better. Those that truly want help deserve societies help.
Suboxone is just another opiate. The “recovering” addict may not get high from the prescribed dose, but will either use more or add other drugs. It is meant to be used as part of a program, not handed out like candy. It also is very hard to get off of. Epic fail.
Banks to give away money.
Two questions.
Where are the addicts getting the money to buy the drugs?
Why don’t we ever hear of drug dealers being arrested, tried and put in prison?
What is happening in San Francisco proves the old saying that you get more of what you reward (and less of what you punish)
There is no attempt to “punish” the bums and addicts in SF only fake compassion.
This new program has a budget of $6 million. How much of that is siphoned off in administration cost (another way to pay off people without having to show any positive results for the money spent).
Liberals like social chaos. They can tax and spend (keeping a bit for themselves) without really being held accountable since it is in the name of fairness, or for the children, or compassion.
Meanwhile the once great cities of our nation are becoming S***holes, and it is all Democrats fault (well Republicans as well since I seldom hear a Republican standing up against these big city policies).
No sane person should live in san fran sicko. It’s what liberalism wants to do to the rest of the country.
keep paying folks...it will never end....
My cat was on buprenorphine for a week or so this spring - seriously. She was recovering from surgery to remove a cherry pit size bladder stone - can you imagine something that large in an animal that small?
She seems to have made a complete recovery. I say seems because the cystotomy was only two weeks after she had, had eight molars extracted - rampant gingivitis - and the cystotomy was followed by a bladder infection.
Grim times. :-(