'I’d be dead without it': Why doctors are prescribing housing as health care

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  • Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
  • Some doctors in Portland, Ore., are offering housing as basic medical care for people living on the streets. Their treatment plan invests in getting people into their own homes, and it's saving lives.
    #portland #housing #healthcare
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  • @shari9721
    @shari9721 Рік тому +11

    YES , housing first , then start working on the rest of the issues .

  • @djayjp
    @djayjp Рік тому +8

    Also should prescribe psychotherapy, life skills coaching & support, substance abuse treatment, and safe supply of drugs.

    • @lisbetsoda4874
      @lisbetsoda4874 Рік тому +1

      Cause they are all messed up.

    • @zabmcauley5647
      @zabmcauley5647 Рік тому

      Without housing getting treatment is almost impossible. This program does offer treatment.

    • @nickpayne1641
      @nickpayne1641 Рік тому

      Or we could try to get more lead in their diet.

  • @Justbiina
    @Justbiina Рік тому +2

    Why am I crying? God bless this Doctor for his kindness.

  • @firesidethewater
    @firesidethewater Рік тому +2

    This is amazing. The world needs more of this - instead of looking down on people, offering them a hand up. 💛

  • @donna2267
    @donna2267 Рік тому +2

    Oh, that is in the USA, sure be a good thing for here in Canada too. 🤔🙏✝️😌😉

  • @dfoxtrot724
    @dfoxtrot724 4 місяці тому

    Dignity, a place to call home and people who care. This gives me hope for our less fortunate. I think this is Finland's model and it's been very successful.

  • @francesbernard2445
    @francesbernard2445 Рік тому

    Do some doctors from that one kind of specialty here in Edmonton, Alberta Canada along with divorce lawyers and all of those divorce lawyer relatives too being employed to give their opinions about the same get to arbitrarily decide where some of their former patients should be housed here in Edmonton?

  • @spammerscammer
    @spammerscammer Рік тому +8

    I swear if I just quit my job and sold my house and spent all my equity on meth Id finally start getting appreciated by my goverment.

    • @djayjp
      @djayjp Рік тому +7

      It's actually cheaper for the government to spend a little money on these programs than to constantly be dealing with the other issues consequential to homelessness and substance abuse and mental illness.

    • @alexyoung4052
      @alexyoung4052 Рік тому +4

      Especially once you can spell government

    • @MegsCarpentry-lovedogs
      @MegsCarpentry-lovedogs Рік тому +1

      @@alexyoung4052 Alex, please be kind. You do not know what others are going through. I felt hurt and sadness from your comment. 😔🇨🇦

    • @duffbaker9554
      @duffbaker9554 Рік тому

      @@alexyoung4052 You're one to speak. Please focus on your punctuation as well as sentence formation. Class dismissed..

  • @bootsiemon
    @bootsiemon Рік тому