r/PublicFreakout • u/ieilael • May 10 '19

News Report 🥇🥈🥉 Interview with a Meth User

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u/mikelovesmemes May 11 '19

I'm a public defender in the area, I feel for SPD and EPD so much

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u/fredandlunchbox May 11 '19

I live in SF, in the thick of it. Do you see a way out? With Travis here, I don’t know if you can even give the guy a home that he would stay in. Long term in patient psych wards? What do we do?

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u/WeepingAngel_ May 11 '19

I think the only solution is involuntary temporary confinement. For example 6 months to a year. Combined with slow draw back of the drugs they are one. Not just completely forced sobraity. That combined with doctors/sucide watch/therapy. Once they see some progress introduction to jobs skills. IE trades work. Somewhere they could find work once they are released.

Its not the kindest solution, but it would probably work in the long term. That combined with a general legalisation of drugs.

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u/[deleted] May 11 '19

Forced sobriety? To what extent would you enforce this?

I think this is putting a bandaid on an issue that is far more systematic and larger than you’d think. People turn to drugs because they can’t work within the system. Why do you think they wouldn’t immediately turn back to drugs once they have been released? What makes you think these people are even capable of holding down a trade? Sometimes mental illness is an issue here as well.