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MuchachoManSavage t1_jcz7w7h wrote

Reply to comment by OpticalFlatulence in Overdose Prevention Center coming to Providence - Community discussion event 4/6 @ 6PM! by idharamsi

I don’t know. This is also anecdotal too but everyone I knew who OD’d or has a drug problem got into drugs because that’s what their peers were doing, not because of anything prescription related. I’m just saying we have limited resources and I would rather see people focus on battered women or homeless children or something like that.

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OpticalFlatulence t1_jcz93a8 wrote

Sorry for nitpicking, but I imagine both battered women and homeless children have suffered as a result of opiate addiction and the deaths associated from it.

Edit: this problem is, of course, much more complex. But if there is at least somewhere safe, perhaps that is the second chance that someone needs. It is impossible to make 100% change, but perhaps we can utilize this, and then work on the real problems that create the opioid epidemic.

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