Your assertions are not supported by data.
My assertions are based upon interviewing heroin addicts as part of my job....but it wouldn’t be the 1st time I was wrong.
But if I were allowed to share my video recorded interviews you would see heroin addicts cursing when asked about methodone clinics in my area.
Our politicians in Seattle area are setting uo “safe injection sites” where addicts can shoot up without being arrested.
The addicts I interview, and I agree with them, say this will increase addiction and be just like the methadone clinics....places for dealers to congregate (within a block or 2) and do deals.
I think public money for methadone clinics would be better spent on subsidizing rehab beds.
Every person I have tried to assist gtting into rehab was on state assisted health insurance (Apple insurance here in WA.)
I call the clinics and they say “Yes we have 6 (or more) open beds right now” He/she has Apple insurance. “Oh...we only have 2 dedicated beds for Apple insurance and tjey are full...booked up out 14 months.”
If you have exoerience with heroin addicts you know the moment they are ready to go into treatment you have to swoop in. If there is a significant delay the pain and the monster starts telling them they cannot do it and they fall back down in the well.
When they next are ready to hit treatment could be in 3 days or 3 years.
I actually interviewed a local elected official and asked them why we are spending money on safe injection sights. The answer was of course no answer.
I think my local politicians would rather be “on the cutting edge” and say “we are the 1st in the nation” to domsomething rather than actually save people.