Matt Mahan

I mean, it

leaving people to cycle on the streets and die of overdose is not, it's not compassionate.

It's not pragmatic.

It's not fair to everybody else.

Yeah, I mean, I do in the sense that I think, and again, there's always a balance.

I just, I find that in our politics, we tend to want to believe everything's a binary.

It's black or white.

It's all the way this way or all the way that way.

I think

There has to be oversight.

There have to be checks and balances.

You should be evaluated by a behavioral health, you know, someone with training.

You know, so it's, look, historically, I think the mental health hospitals certainly had abuses.

And there were people who didn't get the care that they needed and lost autonomy for long periods of time.

And that system needed to be reformed.

But we totally threw the baby out with the bathwater.

And today, unless you say that you want to kill yourself or kill someone else, it is very hard to involuntarily hold someone, even for 72 hours.

I mean, the bar has been set so high that we are unwilling to intervene in the thousands of cases where people ultimately die on the streets of an overdose.

So there's a right sizing that needs to happen.

We have to be willing to intervene.