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It honestly sound like a weird scheme to provide free treatment the homeless, while sounding though. Still I question whether forcing treatment upon people is a good idea, and it would be much better to make it freely available before people become homeless.

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The correct answer is both are needed, for overlapping but not always identical reasons.

There are a lot of drug addicts in homeless encampments, and they are often a menace to other people and to themselves (the drug addiction often going hand-in-hand with mental illness.)

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