• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Drug addiction doesn’t work that way. Imagine if the only way to get housing was to quit smoking cold turkey. Very, very few people will succeed. Some of the homeless have tried to kick their habit and failed, so very few people would want to fail abstinence and go back on the streets.

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      3 months ago

      Please don’t create straw man arguments.

      I never said cold turkey or abstinence. I said “no drug use in the free apartment.”

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      3 months ago

      Rehab is rarely successful, especially religious institutions, but that is no excuse for not trying to fix a very clear problem with ones self. Drug addictions work exactly like that. Either you want to change and you’re trying, or you don’t and you’re not.