Tuesday, October 22, 2019

I doubt this will work

SF’s meth epidemic
 To help curb a decadelong rise in overdose deaths and emergency room visits linked to methamphetamine use in San Francisco, city officials plan to create a sobering center to help people ride out their highs inside and, hopefully, enter treatment.
That’s among the most concrete recommendations in a recently released report laying out a broad vision for how San Francisco leaders and health officials ought to focus resources and energy to tackle the epidemic of meth use in the city.
The skyrocketing use of meth has created a public health crisis playing out on the streets in San Francisco, where meth is contributing to “violent encounters, property damage, thefts and hazardous waste,” according to the report. It has also exacerbated the city’s mental health crisis, driving psychosis in some users.

The report represents the culmination of months of work by a meth task force, a group convened by city officials in February to confront the growing use of the drug in San Francisco. Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and Department of Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax spearheaded the task force, which included representatives from public health and addiction.
This is a serious brain damage problem, putting them all in the same spot magnifies the issue. 

Treat meth addiction like a war injury, as if someone was minding their own business and Gavin let in a bunch of meth cartels and they gas a community.  That is the problem. As long as you have Gavin and the failed state legislature, we will have brain damaged youth and destroyed Hispanic communities.

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