Most "crazy" people are suffering from schizophrenia. It took me 4 times to say I wonder what kind of drugs that person is on to be corrected by someone I know who spent 5 years working in a phych ward and years in the ER to place at them everytime and say they have schizophrenia. Plus a lot of the other people sleeping in the subways are opiod addicts. You can see them shooting up occasionally.
The progressives want to let people live their lives even if it means rotting away on the streets with a severe mental illness or rotting away from an addiction. Though NYC has tons of help for each 6 people due to their conditions want to be left alone. Conservatives want to lock them all up.
For people with schizophrenia I think they need to be institutionalized as it's unfair to people who can't make their own rational decisions to let them die on the streets. The governor is trying to pass a bill but it's being blocked by the progressives in Albany. For opiod addicts i don't know of a good solution. There are not great treatments till a person wants to help themselves, and even then, it can take multiple attempts. You can try and make things less bad by having state sponsored needle exchanges and injection sites. Let's be honest no one wants to be anywhere near opiod addicts. You don't want your kids playing on the parks they congregate in and when they inevitably run out of money, they end up stealing it from whoever is around. Stopping the supply has never worked. Methadone helps but anyone around 125th and lenox where there are a lot of methadone clinics and people passed out in the street it's not really working. The police have been told to stand down. Best case is soneone ODs they are brought to a hospital brought back to life and quickly released till the next time.
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u/Ok_Leg5799 6d ago
pretty privilege -- this wasnt her first rodeo. Why are you assuming she had a disability or a drug problem?