In 1998, at the peak of Ruth Wyner’s career as a manager of bold and innovative projects to help homeless people, a crowd of police officers clattered up the narrow stairs of the Wintercomfort day centre in Cambridge, squeezed into Ruth’s attic office and announced that they had arrested eight of her “clients” for dealing drugs.
“Excellent. Well done,” said Ruth. She was well-known for her anti-drugs stance; her anti-drugs policy, developed in cooperation with the police, was considered a model of good practice.
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