S.F. Mayor Breed declares state of emergency in the Tenderloin

The laws were not. The judicial decisions that made it far more difficult to hold people against their will - which ultimately drove a lot of deinstitutionalization; the asylums were closed mostly as a response, not a cause - are effectively irrevocable.

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legislature

>Reagan

This matters because Donald Regan was a guy who worked for Ronald Reagan.

>Deinstitutionalization was a bipartisan, national phenomenon driven in large parts by abuse scandals in institutions.

Not just scandals in the sense of individual acts, but changes in thinking about patient rights. For example, eugenic sterilization started as policy more than rogue abuse, and was still going on as late as the 1970s. I think the laws about institutionalizing people against their will were changed.

No doubt saving money was a factor, but lots of factors coincided, largely because people wanted to reform the system as society had changed.

How could SF give up on people any more than it already has?

Certainly. But I wasn't speaking about SF, I was speaking about Vancouver.

>The first several years of evaluation have yielded an array of scientific outputs, including more than 30 peer-reviewed studies describing the program’s impacts. These publications indicate that Insite provides a range of benefits to its clients and the greater community, including a reduction in public injecting, lower levels of HIV risk behaviours (e.g., syringe sharing), and an increase in uptake of addiction treatment among the facility’s clients. Furthermore, studies seeking to identify potential harms of the facility found no evidence of negative impacts. Studies were independently peer-reviewed and published in top scientific periodicals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and the British Medical Journal.

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>The first several years of evaluation have yielded an array of scientific outputs, including more than 30 peer-reviewed studies describing the program’s impacts. These publications indicate that Insite provides a range of benefits to its clients and the greater community, including a reduction in public injecting, lower levels of HIV risk behaviours (e.g., syringe sharing), and an increase in uptake of addiction treatment among the facility’s clients. Furthermore, studies seeking to identify potential harms of the facility found no evidence of negative impacts. Studies were independently peer-reviewed and published in top scientific periodicals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and the British Medical Journal.

Emphasis mine.

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