Amrun90 t1_jecat9l wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:36 PM

Reply to comment by DaRiddler70 in Popular Pittsburgh Pizzeria Could Become Homeless Shelter by threwthelookinggrass

Housing is step 1. It’s not the end of the solution, but it is the necessary beginning.

There are lots of initiatives in Pittsburgh that work to combat this problem, more than most cities. We just began sending out social workers to mental health calls, and we do a lot of innovative things.

Pittsburgh is the first city to create EMS, street medicine, AND trauma-centered neighborhood resilience. We have lots of people doing groundbreaking work that is being replicated all over the country and world. You are pretty clueless about it all, obviously.

DaRiddler70 t1_jeccli9 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:49 PM

Housing in NOT step one. A comprehensive solution is needed, you don't piece this shit together. You're a fucking nurse, you should understand that covering up symptoms does not fix the problem.

Your last paragraph is just a bunch of feel good emotional thinker gibberish. My brother was in the pilot EMS program by the Center for Emergency Medicine and is now an ER nurse, I'll have to ask him if he knows what you're talking about.

Amrun90 t1_jech8ga wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:23 AM

I don’t think you understand that EMS was invented here in the Hill district and that is why the center for emergency medicine is in this city at all, not the other way around.

Housing FIRST. Yes, housing is the first step. Until you provide for someone’s basic physiological needs, you cannot hope to move on to the next step. Those are the basics. They are how it works. That’s where all solutions begin, just not where they end.

I will not engage with you any more as you don’t intend to learn anything and think you know it all. ✌🏿

DaRiddler70 t1_jeci6f0 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:30 AM

Yeah, not sure what your history lesson has to do with you not knowing how to solve problems, but you're a nurse....soooooo, I get it.

You can not get a guy to stop smoking meth outside McDonald's by "providing for his basic biological need of housing". You need to fix the drug addiction or mental health problem first. And lucky for you, that shit is indoors.

Do you happen to work for AGH or Forbes maybe?

Amrun90 t1_jecila1 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:33 AM

You cannot fix mental health or drug addictions while a person is in survival mode and fighting to meet their basic physiological needs such as housing and food. It is hard to believe one could say such a thing unironically.

I work with this patient population full time, 365. You have no clue.

DaRiddler70 t1_jeciugp wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:35 AM

Damnit....they're in a facility, not a shelter.

What is the matter with you???

Amrun90 t1_jecjuqj wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:43 AM

You don’t magically fix any sort of mental health or addiction problem with an inpatient stay. Doesn’t work that way.

DaRiddler70 t1_jecmzxm wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:07 AM

You don't get their ass off drugs by saying.....here's a house. If that was the case, they wouldn't be burning down abandoned houses.

I'm glad you agree that you can't fix the problem with one magic step.

DaRiddler70 t1_jecn19i wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:07 AM

You don't get their ass off drugs by saying.....here's a house. If that was the case, they wouldn't be burning down abandoned houses.

I'm glad you agree that you can't fix the problem with one magic step.