Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina announced a new program that will send people with opiod overdose problems to a treatment center instead of sending them directly to a jail cell. This program will cost 1.6 million dollars in funding from two separate federal grants and Colina states the three year program is scheduled to launch in May of 2019. If the person that has been found with posession of the opiods doesn't want any treatment they will follow the standard rules of an an arrest. The goal of this program is to get people to get the treatment that they need and hopefully get them back on their feet and turn their life around for the better.
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1.Do you think this program is a good idea?
I think it is a good idea becasue people have the option of getting treatment if they want it, but it will cost a lot of money to get it started.
2.Do you think the people that will go through this program will want to change their life for the better after the treatment?
I think it depends on the person, for some people it will change their life and they will realize that they needed the treatment and they will try to do better for themselves or for their family, but there are some people that will through the program so that they don't go to jail but they could end up going back to drugs as soon as they get out.
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Good summary overall. Be sure to capitalize key words in your title(-2) and stay away from yes/no questions(-3). You also didn't reply to any comments. I will give some leeway as all of your comments were done ysterday afternoon or evening but you should have checked last night.(-10)
I think that this could potentially be a good idea. Getting them treatment will help to solve the problem, unlike sending them straight to jail. This decision will depend on the person. Depending on the person it could impack them a lot and impack there family a lot.
I think that whether this program is a good idea should be decided by the number of people who relapse after treatment vs. the amount of people who actually clean up their lives. If there is a very small amount of people who clean up their lives and a very large number of people who stay unfixable addicts then is the program really worth it.
It seems like a decent idea, but won't exactly be easy to fund or self funding. I think it'd be worth it though.
I don't know if they'll want to make their life better after treatment. If they are seeking it, then probably. It could also be just so that they don't have to go to jail. Some people might not be strong enough to resist the addiction and go back to drugs though.