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Originally Posted by s|k
Alcoholism is a disease that nobody wants. It ruins your life, it's a shitty life. These people are sick. They have an illness, they're not just letting anyone into these homes, just the very sick.
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Their illness is not being treated though.
I guess what bothers me about this particular program is that there's no requirement to undergo any sort of treatment. Usually shelter is offered as a carrot to entice homeless alcoholics to enter rehab but this program is aimed at those who apparently refuse to enter treatment. It might be cheaper for the state to warehouse these people but it doesn't strike me as being particularly humane. Instead of drinking their lives away out on the streets we give them a place to drink that costs us less money overall and takes them off the streets and out of public view. Is this for their benefit or ours?
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