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Grant Denton

@grantadenton

Formally homeless and addicted. Recovery advocate, founder, and Executive Director of the Karma Box project.

Reno, NV Katılım Kasım 2022
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Grant Denton
Grant Denton@grantadenton·
“It is no measure of health, to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” Doing outreach in Portland with Kevin Dahlgren, and an explosion in the camp next to the overpass causes us to run over. No one‘s in the tent, it seems like the fire may have been intentional. People in the adjacent tents, pop their head out for a moment. Realize they’re not in danger, and then zip the tents back up, business as usual. We called the fire department, but by time they got there the fire had burned down to a smolder. They slowly roll out the hose, about six of them, squirt, a little water on the already dying fire, and head out. Business as usual. Later that day, we see bodies folded over from fentanyl in the streets, people passed out on the sidewalk half dressed, multiple overdoses, people sitting in their own excrement, people smoking, injecting, or drinking themselves to death. Business as usual. It was insane! What was more insane though, was the communities’s reaction to it. Nothing. There was no reaction. people on the way to work, walking to the store, waiting at the bus stop, kids on the way to school. It was just another day. Business as usual. Navigating the sidewalks, walking over bodies stepping over needles crack and meth pipes, foil and straws. It was just another day. We have unintentionally in the spirit of compassion, normalized this scene. Be careful what you allow your community to get used to. This is a direct result, a bad drug policies and city ordinances. Again: “It is no measure of health, to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” #DrugPolicyFailure #WestCoastCrisis #PortlandReality #SanFranciscoCrisis #SeattleDrugCrisis #AccountabilityMatters #EndStreetSuffering #CompassionWithBoundaries #PublicSafetyFirst #RealRecoveryNow #StopNormalizingHarm #FixThePolicies #StreetLevelTruth #UrbanDecayCrisis #speakhardtruths
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Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾
Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾@kevinvdahlgren·
A homeless tent exploding on the streets of Portland. I was with @grantadenton and we did our best to get the other Homeless away. This is very common on the streets, especially as the weather gets colder. Many Homeless burn to death every year this way. Feels like a Warzone
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Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾
Kevin Dahlgren 🥾 🥾@kevinvdahlgren·
A homeless man mourning the loss of his friend who just died of an overdose said harm reduction activists are nothing more than people providing assisted suicide.
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Grant Denton
Grant Denton@grantadenton·
“For the first time in U.S. history, senior homelessness is rising faster than any other age group.” America is facing a growing challenge: more seniors are experiencing homelessness. Fixed incomes like Social Security aren’t keeping up with the rising cost of housing, healthcare, and daily living. Many older adults who worked their whole lives now find themselves struggling to afford stability. This issue isn’t just about housing — it’s about ensuring dignity, health, and security for people as they age. The “boomer crisis” is a call to strengthen support systems, expand affordable housing, and adjust benefits so that seniors can age with dignity in our communities. #BoomerCrisis #SeniorHomelessness #AffordableHousingNow #EndHomelessness #ElderCareCrisis #RisingRent #SocialSecurityReform #CostOfLivingCrisis #HomelessnessAwareness #ProtectOurSeniors #AgingWithDignity #SeniorHousing #EconomicJustice #HousingCrisis #HumanRights #ElderJustice #HomelessSolutions #AffordableLiving #CommunityCare #SeniorSupport #BoomerGeneration #HousingJustice #HomelessCrisis #ActNow #PolicyChange #SupportOurElders #SystemicChange #PreventHomelessness
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We Heart Seattle
We Heart Seattle@weheartseattle·
Five years ago I stepped over needles and languishing bodies suffering from mental illness and drug addiction in the city of Seattle where I live. A lightening bolt struck my heart to act. I started what’s now a movement called @weheartseattle with founding volunteers and now my right hand @WeHeartDirector and started to pick up what’s now 2M lbs of trash, 100,000 needles (now foils) and grimly discovered dead bodies all over our parks and shared spaces taking arrow after arrow after arrow to my back for trying to make a difference, for calling out that something is broken and that our loved ones need intervention and accountability. I have proudly aligned with @shellenberger and all of our co-founders of North America Recovers who relentlessly took to social media and various direct actions to kick and scream that we need policy change to save lives and save cities. Today’s announcement from the federal administration means so much to so many, especially those who lost a loved one. They now no longer die in vain. Our exposing the truth on the ground with voices like @choeshow @JeremyHarrisTV @BrandiKruse @thehoffather @jasonrantz @DiscoveryInst1 @Twolfrecovery @BromleyMy @ChangeWash @BattleEndsHere @kmmoreland @SteebMichele @future42org and so many more, made its way to the white house. Today is one of the most surreal and proudest days of my life. I never read a book about or went to college to study “homelessness” or was influenced for political purposes. Everything I know is from what I saw, smelled, and acted on by myself and with the help of our volunteers, and donors who thank god sustain our work and mostly from those who still cry out loud on the streets begging us to intervene. 🇺🇸
Michael Shellenberger@shellenberger

It's better to let mentally ill people buy and use meth and fentanyl on sidewalks, believes Gavin Newsom, than arrest their drug dealers, and them, and mandate rehab. But enabling Mexican-Chinese drug mafias to murder mentally ill Americans with fentanyl, as they do everyday and did again a few hours ago in San Francisco, as the video below by @war24182236 shows, is barbaric and pathological. I thus applaud Trump's announcement that he will crack down on open air drug use and the government policies that encourage addiction. Harm reduction led to drug deaths rising from 20,000 in 2000 to over 100,000 in 2023. The federal government should have acted decades ago to stop the barbarism. Seventy percent of Californians last November voted to crack down on fentanyl. Newsom opposed that measure (Prop 36) and is starving its implementation of resources, for the simple reason that he needs Soros money for his presidential run. Californians should support the federal government in, finally, doing the right thing on addiction and the drug death crisis.

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Grant Denton@grantadenton·
How has the war on drugs impacted homelessness?
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A huge step in the right direction for Seattle. Well done, Andrea!
We Heart Seattle@weheartseattle

A historical step in the right direction that centers drug treatment and recovery services as part of the city’s public safety agenda. Today @CMSaraNelson invited @weheartfounder and @kmmoreland to stand with her among old guard providers in efforts to bring attention to and expand services that include clean and sober living with integrated services (Hope and Chance), boots on the ground drug user intervention @WeHeartDirector case management, and medicine like Sublocade. We proudly partner with @BattleEndsHere , The Salvation Army, Hope and Chance (see 8 minutes in), sanctioned camping shelters like Camp United We Stand, and The More We Love. Thank you to the men and women of these organizations who stood with us today. We urge all providers to put more people on the ground, to proactively intervene, and to broker resources like treatment and family unification. We can’t keep waiting and must act now, to stop the failed enabling harm reduction methods (handing out glass and pipes and foil, housing before treatment) and support abstinence based recovery programs. Saving lives will save our city and restore public safety. @ChrisDaniels_TV

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We Heart Seattle
We Heart Seattle@weheartseattle·
I testified at city hall this week after denial of grant money for “substance use disorder service investment” allocations now 221% up to the tune of $18M by @MayorofSeattle for opioid use services. Seven applicants and five awarded the other two (me) denied. Take a look and let’s make this reach voters in Seattle and King County. @SeattleCouncil @MayorofSeattle @GovBobFerguson @KCPubHealth @KingCoRHA @choeshow @BrandiKruse @komonews @KUOW @seattletimes @jasonrantz @KIRO7Seattle @KING5Seattle FUND WE HEART SEATTLE 💚
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SAVE VENICE!
SAVE VENICE!@DyingVenice·
A homeless man starts a fire at a busy infersection in Venice. When LAFD show up, the man wanders off to start a fire somewhere else. Over 50% of the fires LAFD respond to are started by mentally ill homeless people. youtu.be/HWiEVFQNaeo
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T Wolf 🌁
T Wolf 🌁@Twolfrecovery·
LA City Council just passed a budget that throws hundreds of millions down the black hole of homelessness while cutting funding to LAPD. @TraciParkforLA is absolutely marvelous here. One of the last hopes for LA's future.
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T Wolf 🌁@Twolfrecovery·
@Tenderloin94109 Harm reduction should not be an ideology or a policy. Nor should it be a social justice movement. It's just a set of tools. Period.
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T Wolf 🌁@Twolfrecovery·
Was it worth it? Shame on all the harm reduction advocates who supported this in San Francisco.
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Grant Denton
Grant Denton@grantadenton·
@JeffAllenHood @NevadaGlobe I agree. Definitely some sloganeering, heavy on moral morass and a bit wrist wringing. When you work in this field, you walk a fine line between heart and logic. My intent was to pull it back from a simple get it together or get out mindset. Actionable part is a whole other artic
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J Allen Hood
J Allen Hood@JeffAllenHood·
Those impacted by skyrocketed rents and the job market could be considered "legitimate". Their condition more easily addressed through conventional means. Those suffering from addiction, mental health issues and trauma are in another category and current methods do little to address their situation. In your response piece, you do little other than lead us into moral morass. It's just explanation and empathy and I do get it. However, it doesn't provide any solutions. IMHO if we take your article to heart, we do nothing other than naval gaze and hand wring. Solutions are called for, perfect or otherwise. Based on your bio, you seem to have an understanding of the issue broader than the norm. If you were pressed for some actionable solutions, what would you suggest? I think "confront the systemic issues that create homelessness" is sloganeering and not actionable. Though it might get you on a non-profit and probably a great way to get into politics.
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Nevada Globe@NevadaGlobe·
Check it out! Two prominent Reno activists are battling it out here on the NVG—read for yourself and decide who's right about addressing homelessness in Reno. Paul White wrote first, Grant Denton responded, and soon we’re sure Paul White will want to respond to Grant Denton’s latest opinion piece here: thenevadaglobe.com/featured-story…
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Grant Denton@grantadenton·
@JeffAllenHood @NevadaGlobe How does that prove his point. Definitely agree that there are multiple different reasons why people are homeless and multiple different pathways out. My argument is that it’s not as simple as Paul presents it to be.
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J Allen Hood@JeffAllenHood·
@NevadaGlobe By his own admission, Grant separates the homeless into multiple camps, those with addiction, mental health issues and trauma, and those impacted by skyrocketing rents and the job market that left them behind. Thus proving Paul's point.
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@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸
@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸@Chicago1Ray·
Raise your hand ✋️ if you think this 23 yr old punk Kamel Hawkins should spend the rest of his life in prison for pushing this 45 yr old man in front of an incoming train in (NYC)
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Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕@jeremykauffman·
The SF Chronicle covered what happens when you just give the homeless housing: - They live in squalor - They fight and kill each other - They die of drug overdoses - They get evicted for failure to follow basic rules - They threaten and abuse staff
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