We do not have the infrastructure to and drug crackdowns is complex and can often support the onslaught of behavioral health needs include misconceptions and misunderstandings the pandemic unearthed along with the historic that fuel mis-and-disinformation. [...] An increase in the poverty rates reflects the in particular communities, and the erosion of the consequences of policy choices made since the social safety net. [...] The reality is drug use is • The same tough-on-crime narratives that resulted often a survival tactic for living on the streets, not in the failed policies of the past have always the reason why people are unhoused. [...] But much of the shift to a more compassionate approach was in response to 27X when white, affluent communities began to feel the impacts of the opioid and overdose crisis. [...] For example, although Black A narrative that focuses on criminalizing individuals people are only 14% of the population and Black and who are the visible victims of government failure white Americans use illegal drugs at similar rates, continues and exacerbates the stigmatization of about one in four people arrested for drug law people who use drugs.
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