Nothing will improve as long as Anchorage , and the whole state for that matter , have a love affair with drugs . We celebrate pot stores opening everywhere . We boast about drug tax money coming in---without a care in the world about the negative impact drugs have on people's lives.  IF we are going to enable drug users to use drugs with clean needles , why not give them the drugs as well---you know--to make sure they are pure drugs and no one dies from bad drugs ?  It's insane that we tell drug users that if the OD , we have kits to save them---so they can go out the next day and use drugs again .  We see first hand how alcohol on our streets is a growing problem because we enable Beans and Francis to enable the street homeless problem to thrive in Anchorage .Using the same insane model of enabling drug users to get clean needles , why not pass out bottles of alcohol to the drunks ?   IF you drink or use drugs , you are accepting you might die . We need to stop enabling these people.