Non-Support Brings Premature Retirement

[mahagonny]

I am familiar with another of these programs, which has been going for 31 years and has served as a national model:

https://whitebirdclinic.org/what-is-cahoots/

Thirty-one years, no deaths, wide community support. I don't get the doom-mongering about this kind of thing. Something could go wrong, sure. But in practice, amidst hundreds, probably thousands of call-outs, it has not gone wrong, so why the impulse to jump to a worst-case scenario? "If X happens, then people will response in this undesirable way!" Look at what's actually happening — we have the data. It's a good program, it saves money, it promotes community well-being, it almost certainly saves lives.

I'd be all for such a thing, but I'm worried that it will harm the New York Times' sales.