One of the nice-sounding and disaster-creating policies of the past few years is the insistence that “harm reduction” is superior to enforcing laws against illegal drug use.
Who doesn’t wish that addicts could be helped to lead safer, healthier, and less crime-ridden lives and hurried along the path to recovery? I certainly don’t want to see potentially happy and productive people thrown onto the trash heap of civilization.
Addicts have turned a minority neighborhood into an open-air drug market. Residents blame the mostly white advocates for ‘destroying’ their community.@Olivia_Reingold reports from ground zero of the opioid epidemic in Philly for @TheFP:https://t.co/bbdeDT0l7f
— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) April 8, 2024
The problem is that this noble sentiment is, as with so many others, sentimental tripe. “Harm reduction” doesn’t reduce harm to addicts; it spreads the harm…
