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Sttew
Brownlow Medallist
I hear your frustration. Looks like the abolition of public drunkenness has had a massive unintended consequence.Yes. And the complaints were that police couldn’t/ didn’t deliver medical care when the drunks fell over and hit their heads. So then they starting bring them to ED where we are a bit “**** we have no where to put them and that one you brought tried to punch us last week” so we don’t really want them (as most hospitals have no access to detox or alcohol addiction specialists, and many drunks not interested either)