Submitted by jojobean018 t3_z81d3u in nyc
WeCanDoThisCNJ t1_iy99kbg wrote
We were heading here eventually. Our country has enough trouble providing care for Medical issues, but is entirely incompetent for mental health issues. Since addressing mental health is something we’d never vote for, the “law and order” crowd will just institutionalize them and keep them out of the sight of voters who never valued constitutional rights in the first place.
thisisntmineIfoundit t1_iy9hznx wrote
Let’s say we did “vote for mental health”…what would you say is the first thing involved in treatment?
Might it be…removing them from the sidewalk and giving them medicine that could bring them back to reality?
WeCanDoThisCNJ t1_iyaf4a0 wrote
Start with social work and housing assistance, drug treatment, and trauma counseling so they can transition to readiness for work and independent living. Yes, some may be schizophrenic or have some other disorder that needs medication and an adherence plan so they stay on their meds—like the first things I listed. Adams wants to snatch them off the street and stick them in a locked ward so we don’t have to see them anymore. Many homeless are veterans, sent home without help from the same government that delights in spending trillions on weapons systems like the F-35 that are as dangerous to the pilot as they are to the enemy. Take some of that $600 million and spend it on veterans.
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