From the perspective of a society as a whole. It is cheaper to offer free services like dental, needles etc. especially since we have "universal healthcare" Teeth cleaning is like $100 vs a few nights at ER at St. Pauls of antibiotics and drip from a tooth infection, a thousand plus. Or Insite that has a few 80k nurses to supervise injection vs fire, ambulance and police very time when there is an OD.
The problem I have in this instance is an obviously well off person is taking advantage of that free resource.
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Originally Posted by Marco911
It's the downtown eastside. Downtown Eastsiders think they're entitled to free things, like needles and shopping carts.
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