Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing

Post by kaybe » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 4:45 PM UTC

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I agree with the sentiment but based on the text of the ruling, I can't agree with the ruling itself [0]. Missing from your summary is: - "The applicant, Violeta-Sibianca Lăcătuş, is a Romanian national who was born in 1992 and lives in Bistrita-Nasaud (Romania)." - "In 2011 Ms Lăcătuş, who was unable to find work, began asking for charity in Geneva." Why was somebody who "lives in" Romania begging in Geneva? Would s…

Western European countries seem to be completely incompetent at deporting people. Illegal immigrants, terrorists, criminals, they fail to deport almost everyone.

Post by bko » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 4:57 PM UTC

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> As the advent of antipsychotics and antidepressants reduced their population, these hospitals were an obvious target for budget cuts throughout the 80s and 90s Do you have a source that shows that public funding for hospitals and treatments for mental health declined during this time period? From a quick search is seems it has risen considerably throughout the 80s to today. https://www.statista.com/statistics/25239…

Trump stomping on his predecessor's sand castle is not a new phenomenon. Patients be damned, Jimmy Carter giveth and The Gipper taketh away.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1...

Post by caturopath » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 6:38 PM UTC

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Integrating counselling and medical doctoring is a strange idea, and it's somewhat weird that it's even as much of a thing as it is. Drug-focused psychiatrists are certainly going to be a thing so long as med school is so costly and med schools conspire to keep the supply of doctors low.

> Integrating counselling and medical doctoring is a strange idea Why? It doesn't seem any different to me than surgery + physical therapy for a non-brain-oriented medical problem.

Post by Jackypot » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 11:27 PM UTC

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I think it's unrelated, people like that are not ready to function 'normally', they need a shelter, asylum, hospital. It's an emotional problem more than material.

There are other approaches to treating people with drug and alcohol addictions than trying to get them to quit. One is harm reduction. This has most famously been used to help people with IV drug addictions, in the form of safe injection sites. It can also be used for alcoholism: you provide a bar-like setting where people can go to get free drinks (rationed and served on a schedule by a trained server) and also soci…

Post by selimthegrim » Wed, Jan 27, 2021, 1:58 AM UTC

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I'm sure the Romani would prefer to fix discrimination and generational poverty but you can do that while also asking people to not use their name as a curse word (and also it's not really being fixed).

In Western Europe there have been movements to avoid using the local equivalent of the term "gypsy", and these have seen some success. However, in the Balkan countries these movements have had little impact, even among the Roma themselves. There is a small Roma intelligentsia, university-educated and aware of those international trends, who welcomes the usage of "Roma (and Sinti)" instead of the traditional word. Amo…