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User_Name13 OP t1_j3gtotw wrote

Reply to comment by NonIdentifiableUser in Announcement of how opioid settlement money will be spent in Kensington elicits mixed responses from community members by User_Name13

Do you live in Kensington?

Would you want the city to set up a safe injection site around the corner from your residence?

If they opened up one in Point Breeze where I live, I'd consider selling at a slight loss now to get out before the addicts took over the neighborhood.

No one wants to live around this shit and have their tax dollars go towards making their local addicts lives easier.

You have to let them hit rock bottom, enabling their addiction just keeps them stuck in it longer.

I lost my cousin to alcoholism last year, we grew up like brothers. The worst thing his parents did was not kick him out and let him spend a few hard nights on the street. They let him live with them throughout his addiction, and now he's gone. They enabled him right to the end.

The reason I'm saying all this is to provide context and show I'm not trying to be a callous asshole towards addicts. If you make the lives of addicts too easy, you keep them stuck in the cycle of addiction. You've gotta let people hit rock bottom because that's what will force them to stop.

Right now, the city is just ensuring future business for the drug dealers. The dealers are winning on every front. The city is reviving their addicts with Narcan, beautifying their drug dealing areas, the dealers are killing it rn.

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NonIdentifiableUser t1_j3h8498 wrote

Nah to both of your questions . I don’t have the time to write a longer response right now (worked last night), but that’s why I said it needs to be part of a more comprehensive solution. There can be a happy medium where we lessen the load on first responders, save a few lives, generally positive things, while still heavily dis-incentivizing users and cleaning up drug-infested areas.

I hear what you’re saying but we don’t really know how people will respond until they’re at that point. Some people are like rubber and they bounce back, but others wont and they’ll just hit rock bottom and never return.

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CT_Real t1_j3kpd2l wrote

Sell me your house man, go to the suburbs....You know you wana!

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