Treat it as a medical issue, have more than one methedone center per city. Government fund them. That distributes the problem rather than concentrating it.
Then you fund all sorts of homelessness and domestic abuse services so that a) kids can avoid following the paths of their families, b) spouses can get away from their partners when they need to.
See you treat a problem like this by sitting down and thinking about all the human choices that cause it, and interviewing as many people as possible about why they started and/or continue to use… And what would help them stop.
The point is, it’s not a static problem happening out there - and it’s not a problem happening to inanimate objects you can’t just talk to people.
These aren’t bridges or roads randomly collapsing. They’re people, and they’re in your town. You can absolutely use the hermeneutic, scientific, and socratic methods to find out about their pathology and put a bunch of options and off roads in for people to take. You won’t solve the problem over night, but in a decades time you would absolutely reduce it.
People do drugs to escape poverty, stresses, and depression. A bad society that lacks accessible services and community are some causes. Fund people to have better lives, and a better society, and you can step in on problems like this.
It’s not impossible for people to have less things they’re escaping from alone. Right now the drugs provide more than society is.
Treat it as a medical issue, have more than one methedone center per city. Government fund them. That distributes the problem rather than concentrating it.
Then you fund all sorts of homelessness and domestic abuse services so that a) kids can avoid following the paths of their families, b) spouses can get away from their partners when they need to.
See you treat a problem like this by sitting down and thinking about all the human choices that cause it, and interviewing as many people as possible about why they started and/or continue to use… And what would help them stop.
The point is, it’s not a static problem happening out there - and it’s not a problem happening to inanimate objects you can’t just talk to people.
These aren’t bridges or roads randomly collapsing. They’re people, and they’re in your town. You can absolutely use the hermeneutic, scientific, and socratic methods to find out about their pathology and put a bunch of options and off roads in for people to take. You won’t solve the problem over night, but in a decades time you would absolutely reduce it.
People do drugs to escape poverty, stresses, and depression. A bad society that lacks accessible services and community are some causes. Fund people to have better lives, and a better society, and you can step in on problems like this.
It’s not impossible for people to have less things they’re escaping from alone. Right now the drugs provide more than society is.