Misdirected Compassion

On Monday, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness released a "Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness." It is unlikely to achieve that goal for a number of reasons, not least because it promotes and seeks to facilitate drug use among the nation's drug-addled street dwellers.

Fox News's Patrick Hauf first reported that the plan calls on the council's 19 member agencies to prioritize "harm reduction" in their efforts to fight homelessness. "Harm reduction" is one of those pernicious phrases that obscures what it means to describe, in this case, the practice of giving addicts drug paraphernalia on the grounds that doing so will lower their risk of disease and overdose.

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