Submitted by SnortingCoffee t3_118eh0l in washingtondc
frappeyourmom t1_j9ha5bc wrote
Reply to comment by twenty-six-sixty-six in Two-thirds of McPherson Square homeless remain on street, D.C. says by SnortingCoffee
Harm reduction isn’t easy, but usually when someone got addicted, it wasn’t easy either. Most of the people I speak to when I’m supporting them with fresh supplies say that they want to get clean, but they don’t know where to find support. The folx who can find MAT clinics and stay supported eventually do get sober. Sobriety isn’t an overnight thing. LA I believe has a housing first model that does get people housed and slowly weans them off of whatever they’re using on the streets and gets them onto a MAT regimen. There’s also a program in North Carolina that does the same thing. The main block to those programs being implemented nationwide are policy changes and funding.
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