You can Google a lot of the answers to your questions in this thread.
Housing ongoing drug users costs more per person. Services do not have the budget. You also don’t want active users around other vulnerable clients.
Usually specialist “Wet houses” are set up, following a harm reduction approach. It is a messy business and as a result politically difficult. That is not rational- as far as we know from research, the additional stability and access to harm reduction programs are effective in moderating clients’ patterns of using. Wet houses also cost less than leaving addicts on the streets.
Housing ongoing drug users costs more per person. Services do not have the budget. You also don’t want active users around other vulnerable clients.
Usually specialist “Wet houses” are set up, following a harm reduction approach. It is a messy business and as a result politically difficult. That is not rational- as far as we know from research, the additional stability and access to harm reduction programs are effective in moderating clients’ patterns of using. Wet houses also cost less than leaving addicts on the streets.