Could jails be the answer to addiction? | Vargas Reports
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- Authorities in Philadelphia arrested the alleged leader of a fentanyl ring as part of a crackdown on opioids in the city’s Kensington neighborhood. Sam Quinones, author of "The Least of Us," joins NewsNation host Elizabeth Vargas to discuss. "The longer people are on the street, the more chance they have of dying. ... We're starting to see jail as a place of recovery," Quinones says.
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Ridiculous !! There are more drugs in Jail than on the outside!! This is so misleading.
I hope y’all know that it’s plenty of drugs in jail 🤣🤣🤣
In some cases there's more drugs in jail than on the street. If you want something bad enough, you'll find a way to get it even in jail.
People have absolutely NO CLUE how easy it is to get drugs in jail and prison. I have a family member who is in and out all the time and she's a heroin addict. She has ZERO issues getting her H in jail or prison. S he says it's easier to find drugs IN than it is to find them OUT.
Exactly!
@@debh3404 that's why this story is so ridiculous. This isn't about getting people treatment. It's about filling jails for cosmetic and monetary reasons
@@keithgupton9349 YEP. More "for profit" jails and prisons.
It would be nice if the approach they are talking about would actually work though.
The way she keeps saying “these people” 😮
You’re not giving the whole story, they decriminalized but didn’t offer any support so it was a free for all.
That's cause NewsNation loves pushing pro-drug war propaganda.
Thank you for addressing this problem Elizabeth. (my daughter's name, btw)
Anyone asking that question has lost touch with reality. The answer to that question is why it's such a mess
This is what you get when you punish addiction equally as selling it. Getting homeless is never a choice. Also a place to start asking questions. It's a disease first. But to understand this you need to have at least a functioning mental healthcare system. Good luck with that. Kind Regards, the rest of the world.
Liberals have proved that's not true. Some cities opened clinics to help them out. Yes, poverty and homelessness drives some people to start doing drugs. But not removing users of streets has made things worse.
Yes exactly! You can put an addict in jail over and over and over but nothing will change until you start putting the dealers in jail, also you can't get clean without mental health treatment
Its not tough love. I am an Oregon licensed investigator. We cannot help our clients fight these addiction related cases when no sober facilities are currently available. With no available services for detox, no mandatory drug court help and slashed funding, it is horrible. Legallizing drug use meant canceling addicition services, no resources cosequences, accountability, and advocating from compassionate case managers.
Treat the sadness they carry, sometimes from childhood abuse, that's often all it takes. It can be as simple as asking what happened to them
So basically, right back to where we started from? Amazing.
Programs like this have been tried in the past and did not address the reason people become addicts in the first place.
I would want my son to get arrested. But he was getting financial support in SF. Nothing could motivate him to go into treatment. And now he is gone. I think the local government is to blame for his death. Why would they give money to drug addicts unconditionally?
I am sorry for your loss...
I'm so so sorry for your loss, I am a recovering addict, going on 10 years, I don't really understand what you mean by they were giving him money, I know they used to give addicts social security but stopped because of the uprise of addicts
@robinblades600 in SF people without income get food stamps and financial assistance. Even though my son was obviously an addict, he was getting this unconditional assistance and supporting his addiction.
@@nellaveselaya9476 okay I understand now, I feel bad for people that are doing drugs in these times, I honestly do not think I would be alive today if I was still using, too many other drugs going in without your knowledge, it's a very scary time for addicts 😢
PROLIFERATION.....is Not Sobriety. !!!!
The problem is that we can't walk and chew gum at the same time. We will either incarcerate and not treat, or treat and not incarcerate. A balance of both is the key.
Exactly! 💯
As a recovering addict I can tell you jail is NOT the answer, too many ppl go to jail and come back out and start right back up again, it has to be more of a treatment facility, a forced treatment facility..? Idk the answer but I do know jail is NOT the answer 🤔
💯 I totally agree with you.
Stone cold ignorance to send a person to jail for drug addiction. Jail / prison is never the answer .
I agree.if I wouldn’t have been pulled into an indictment in the 1990s, I would be dead now. All the people who were “fiends” of mine at the time, who did not get arrested and do time, are dead or still using. Prison helped me help myself and drove a huge life-long wedge between myself and those “fiends” of mine back then. But then again, many of those people who I see in the arrest records have been in and out- so more than anything it’s an inside job (self). Unfortunately many should just be left to completely do themselves in because they will never change.
And..In circles we GO again!!😂 smFh
Many countries have none of these drug problems. Wonder why ?
If there are no services for addicts then decriminalization is totally a death wish for the vulnerable. No long term mental health facilities and access to addiction recovery services are too challenging. There has to be a safety net for decriminalization to be a good option. It’s honestly cruel how Portland decriminalized but didn’t have any safety net.
Jails with detox experts prehaps .
Opiates are the worse to withdrawal off of...
I know
XannieS... Were my harshest. And..Methadone. Dope?. 4/5 days? You live. Xannie w/d? Can kill. And Meth?!! Omg. Took 6 months to 'get right' phew. All Set now..😊 live and learn
There are lots of drugs in jails. What also happens is that a person with addiction goes to jail, loses their tolerance, and then gets released and ODs because they used the same amount they were using before the arrest. Also, someone with an opioid addiction needs to be on Suboxone for the rest of their life (or close to it) in order to not use anymore. Most jails will only give Suboxone to individuals who already had a prescription before being arrested.
Not on the west coast considering there is as much if not more drugs in jails and prisons than whats available on the streets these days
Time and time again we have seen the evidence that tough love works! Look at our society!
Lmfao
NO!! Jail didn't help me stop....it won't work!
The only policy should be therapy of different kinds to address the root cause of addictions.
Thanks to the dam dealers, Jose is one of them around here , by the schools. They get the kids hooked. Talking about the hard ones, not the basic plant drugs.
You had me at Jose
You mean the welfare state doesn't work?? 😂
Nothing.. Works. Respectfully? Anymore in the US sighs
Even before listening to, the answer is yes
Lol that's what we have always done and it doesn't work. Jail is obviously not the answer.
Drugs are a health issue. Not a criminal issue unless a proper crime has been committed.
Unless it's a so called jail that is a health facility.
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putting "THEM" in jail will not work. and i can tell u from personal experience. I've been off heroin for a year now and I did it all by myself. you cant force it on someone, that person has to be ready on their own. the only thing jail ever did for me was give my body a break for a couple a months and give me the energy to go back out and run amok
This is total bullshit in my opinion. I am a recovering addict and you cannot force someone to get clean unless they want to get clean. I went to jail, rehabs, and halfway houses so many times and until I wanted to get clean I didn’t. Also jail is the worst place for an addict you just meet more people and learn new ways to do things to get drugs. Neither this man nor the host has a clue what they’re talking about in regard to addiction and getting clean.
How about you put the doctors in jail that got everyone addicted to that stuff?
Trust me the doctors withholding real meds drive people to fentanyl
NewsNation is just pushing pro-drug war propaganda. They're just as bad as republicans. They claim to be for "bodily autonomy", but directly contradict that with shit like this. Why don't they educate people on how opioids are less toxic on the brain & organs than alcohol, yet alcohol is legal, socially acceptable & available on every street corner.
Amen! And..The Sacklers
No. Wood chippers are.
It's not like we didn't try this already, so it's right on brand for humanity in general. Course, one has to wonder what it is about your perfect world that washes so many out into addiction and despair? Nah... That's fuggin' commie talk, right?
This is horrible idea, these people won't have access to resources once jailed & what about the inhumane treatment of people in jail
u have NO CLUE. !!
@@timandsuzidickey9358 oh they are very well informed. You have no clue how many drugs are saturated in the jails and prisons.
Na.. legalize it so it's safe
With three square meals.
Yes it helps everybody out u should take kids to court so they can see people get sentenced to prison that got me straight and forward tbh …. Jail is good for fasting to and for the soul
Asylums
YES
Jail really??? There's more drugs in jail then on the street😂 in order to beat addiction the person needs to want to quit and needs the right meds or therapy in order to do so. You ever see intervention the people who don't want help and are forced to don't end up getting better, they get out of treatment early and relapse and they're right back to being an addict. The ones who actually want help and go usually do best. If you wanna get better you'll do whatever it takes , being arrested and thrown in jail is not the answer, unless they have a mental health and behavioral health treatment.
More addicts come out of jail then go in. prison as not the place to get clean, it 'could' be but not the way it's set up.
Of course it will dump truck
Vargas you have no credibility. These are people exhausted from homelessness with nowhere to go. They are not zombies they are human beings and they are not on drugs!!!!
Its time we rejoin 1st world nations and reopen state run mental asylums. Since we shut them down instead of reforming them, we have only created a humanitarian crisis in the USA.
No that's not going to help. What is jail going to do? 😂 Free room and board on us tax payers they will love it they have all they need . Crazy.
It sure wouldn't hurt the folks. If your away from people who do drugs with you for months years at a time you can be rehabilitated with time. It's not a bad thing if your willing to change.
uh YEA!!! handing out drug paraphernalia doesn't help in the long run. testing? sure! test the drugs. dont be handing them crack pipes and needles.
The needles are to reduce the spread of diseases. It is a benefit to all of us. Far less expensive. Jails are not hospitals.
Full circle. Typical politics 😂 get a bunch of new addicts. then change the laws back so that the addiction industrial complex can keep going.
Ok so jail, then sober, but then what? Free houses?
this coming from someone who is still wearing a mask in 2024 weirdo
Wld be nice. Tiny homes...
Did you see that San Francisco spends about 5 million a year to give the homeless alcohol all day? Beer, wine, vodka... seems to me enabling them isn't the right thing to do.