Cost comparison shows that providing group home treatment with case management and relapse accommodation is cheaper than the current California system of repeated EMT/Narcan interventions, fire truck dispatches, and re-arrests without recovery, making the recovery approach economically superior

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Michael Shellenberger

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it's much much cheaper to get somebody into that group home... than it is to continue to send out EMTs... fire trucks

Source

Michael Shellenberger - Why Progressives Ruin CitiesFieldstead and Company
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:32:04 PM

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