Tucson drafts new law to criminalize public drug use; goal is to get offenders into treatment

Tamara Ceaikovski

As the Tucson City Council weighs whether to target public drug use through a new pathway to misdemeanor arrests, a rare city-county summit highlighted a central dilemma; how to address addiction as both a growing public health emergency and a political flashpoint. The meeting showed the depth of planning and resources around this issue, and how frequently police enforcement ends up as the most consistently available tool. That’s the tool Tucson has turned to in a new ordinance under

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