Rantz: Seattle Council plans to bribe meth addicts in latest inevitable failure

Meth overdoses are surging in Seattle and King County. It’s too bad we don’t have serious leaders willing to tackle the problem. Instead, they think bribing addicts with gift cards will have them turn their lives around.

Fatal meth ODs jumped from 96 in 2016 to 318 this year thus far, according to a recent Seattle City Council-ordered audit. It noted the homeless community is particularly susceptible to meth addiction. And many of them, the audit confirms, commit violent crimes.

Declaring there is an “unmet and urgent need for methamphetamine treatment,” councilmembers Andrew Lewis and Lisa Herbold propose a “contingency management” strategy. It’s a convoluted way to say they

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