Great program, at least it offers a solution. It should be shown in every school. I have a strange fantasy that could be another solution- what if a great circular wall was built outside Seattle and every drug addict and drug dealer (usually the same) be allowed to live there in peace? Maybe they could be given free food so they would stay put. Above the only gate should be written: Beware all those who enter here - you will die young. The first few months of school every class in WA should go on a field trip there to see how the stoned half lives. I wonder how many young people would join their ranks?

Seriously, I hope the state of those homeless drug addicts at least serves the purpose of scaring the young people of Seattle away from drugs.

Guess I will be taking Seattle off my Bucket List. So sad that that City has such a corrupt Council who have taken most Police Powers off them. No Wonder that place looks like HELL.

This is so heartbreaking. I have a son who chooses to live this way—and I say chooses because he was in prison for a time and came out clean. But after 45 days or so he made the choice to use again. It was a choice then but now it’s no longer a choice. He has to feed the beast. Within a week of his first use he was back to his preprison lifestyle—living on the street. Interestingly it doesn’t seem to bother him. He’s comfortable there. He’s also comfortable in prison. I don’t understand this. And the things I do for him that would help someone down in their luck (meal, shower) just seem to enable him to continue. I guess I just need to release him with love and continue to pray for him. I wish there was an injection that would make a user violently ill and that it would last for a year or so.

De-institutionalization, closing the mental hospitals, and dope especially meth. Lock them up.

This was heart-wrenching to watch. I lived in Seattle for over 25 years recently moved to Arizona. It's such a beautiful place to have a Democrat mayor F things up for everybody.

My mother died from a heroin overdose in March of 1962. I was a few months shy of 8. It was an aberration in 1962. Now it's just another lifestyle choice. See how tolerant we are?

Each one of those people sprawled on the street is a catastrophe. It is a life gutted, reduced to a craving, so that some gangster can send bales of cash to cartels in Mexico. And in their wake there are hungry babies and lost, bewildered, hurting children. But see how tolerant we are?

Thank you for sharing this. It took a while, for it to get to the elephant in the room, out of control drug addiction! Great that Rhode Island has a successful program to help the addicts, wish more programs focused on treatment, to break the cycle and actually help people get their lives on track. But, the elephants still there. Why are drug dealers released back into society, why is there a drug epidemic, why has it become acceptable that so many of our children are lost to this, AND the biggest question I have, WHY are politicians ignoring this?

Awesome

Seattle was a beautiful city back in the day. I was so impressed when I first saw it. Now its nothing but crap.

See what happens when Democrats get ahold of things...