Addicts Should Be Able to Shoot Up Legally in Safe-Injection Facilities

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It's been successful in hundreds of cities in Europe and Canada.

Addicts Should Be Able to Shoot Up Legally in Safe-Injection Facilities

To fight the opioid crisis, let users shoot up under medical supervision

Annual opioid fatalities have now surpassed the yearly number of deaths from AIDS at the height of that epidemic in the mid-1990s. In 2016 drug overdose deaths numbered 63,000, more than the U.S. death toll from the entire Vietnam War. The trend is terrifying: the problem is getting worse each year.

Cities and states reeling from opioid deaths need to give serious consideration to setting up safe injection rooms, which could significantly reduce fatalities. These are places where a drug user can go to consume illegal drugs under the supervision of health workers. They have been used in Europe, Canada and Australia for decades, and evidence and experience have shown that they are very effective. This may not seem like an obvious way to fight an abuse epidemic, but few other options exist. In the U.S., many cities' efforts to establish such sites have stalled, but now multiple cities have plans to open the country's first officially sanctioned injection sites. Philadelphia expects to do so in 2019. San Francisco, too, hopes to overcome legal and siting obstacles and open its first facilities this year. New York City's mayor has also endorsed setting up multiple sites at current needle-exchange programs.
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It's the harm reduction method. Either embrace the whole model or don't. Don't do it half ass.

It cuts down on HIV and Hep C drastically--which society most often picks up the tab for via taxes.

Also, people need to start recognizing that some of these deaths are suicide. They are trying to kill themselves.
 
I would be OK with that if ....

The money to create and maintain those injection sites doesn't come from the taxpayer.
It'd cost the government many times less than the present situation.

Personal addiction .. personal habits of any kind, shouldn't be causing a burden on the taxpayer.

On principle, I oppose both the criminalization of recreational drugs as well as tax-payer funding of any rehab programs.
 
It's been successful in hundreds of cities in Europe and Canada.

Addicts Should Be Able to Shoot Up Legally in Safe-Injection Facilities

To fight the opioid crisis, let users shoot up under medical supervision

Annual opioid fatalities have now surpassed the yearly number of deaths from AIDS at the height of that epidemic in the mid-1990s. In 2016 drug overdose deaths numbered 63,000, more than the U.S. death toll from the entire Vietnam War. The trend is terrifying: the problem is getting worse each year.

Cities and states reeling from opioid deaths need to give serious consideration to setting up safe injection rooms, which could significantly reduce fatalities. These are places where a drug user can go to consume illegal drugs under the supervision of health workers. They have been used in Europe, Canada and Australia for decades, and evidence and experience have shown that they are very effective. This may not seem like an obvious way to fight an abuse epidemic, but few other options exist. In the U.S., many cities' efforts to establish such sites have stalled, but now multiple cities have plans to open the country's first officially sanctioned injection sites. Philadelphia expects to do so in 2019. San Francisco, too, hopes to overcome legal and siting obstacles and open its first facilities this year. New York City's mayor has also endorsed setting up multiple sites at current needle-exchange programs.
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Stupid idea.

Just legalize the drugs for adults but cut off all public assistance.

San Francisco teaches us that enabling addicts with public resources always fails.

We educate everyone enough about the harm drugs can do.

Addicts simply choose to ignore that advise and get hooked anyways.

They should be permitted to destroy themselves as they wish as adults but without a dime of tax dollars to help or to fix the consequences of their actions
 
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I would be happy if those who support needle parlors would be required to live next door to them. That might be an interesting arrangement.
 
I would be OK with that if ....

The money to create and maintain those injection sites doesn't come from the taxpayer.
It'd cost the government many times less than the present situation.
I see no evidence of this nor is it a logical result.

In fact your op shows no credible evidence of any success at all.

Saying that something works is a far cry from showing that it works
 
It's the harm reduction method. Either embrace the whole model or don't. Don't do it half ass.

It cuts down on HIV and Hep C drastically--which society most often picks up the tab for via taxes.

Also, people need to start recognizing that some of these deaths are suicide. They are trying to kill themselves.


Don't do it "half ass?"

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Injecting houses sanctioned by the state is the ultimate in speciousness.

Either recreational drugs are criminalized or they are not. The weapons-grade hypocrisy of government sanctioned drug use for some and criminal records for others could only seem reasonable to someone with no morality at all.
 
so we provide addicts with all this but if your child needs an epi pen you best come up with the money....something is wrong with this system..perhaps the child should get his meds free too?
 
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Injecting houses sanctioned by the state is the ultimate in speciousness.

Either recreational drugs are criminalized or they are not. The weapons-grade hypocrisy of government sanctioned drug use for some and criminal records for others could only seem reasonable to someone with no morality at all.
In many ways the opiod crises which is the current social problem a result of exactly such half assed measures by government.

According to many inmates I know the recent rise in heroin and other opioids started when the FDA began limiting the amount of oxy contin that doctors were allowed to describe

Before this many patients had nearly limitless prescriptions and of course many sold what they did not need to take for their own pain management.

Once the crack down began this easy supply disappeared resulting in many turning to other opioids.

In the end the more the government tries to interfere and help the worse it gets.

Legal drug houses would just be more of the same.
 
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"A free place to shoot up"????
You heartless thug!!
Do this and not supply the drugs and needles???? What is wrong with you?
And what about clothing? You wanna have them naked and freeze the death??
And these drug safehouses... no beds?? No cable TV?? No chef provided nutritious meals??
No wonder these people use drugs!! With heartless people like you only willing to give them meager shelter to just do drugs and then a big fuck you after that!!

Wow just wow!!












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It's been successful in hundreds of cities in Europe and Canada.

Addicts Should Be Able to Shoot Up Legally in Safe-Injection Facilities

To fight the opioid crisis, let users shoot up under medical supervision

Annual opioid fatalities have now surpassed the yearly number of deaths from AIDS at the height of that epidemic in the mid-1990s. In 2016 drug overdose deaths numbered 63,000, more than the U.S. death toll from the entire Vietnam War. The trend is terrifying: the problem is getting worse each year.

Cities and states reeling from opioid deaths need to give serious consideration to setting up safe injection rooms, which could significantly reduce fatalities. These are places where a drug user can go to consume illegal drugs under the supervision of health workers. They have been used in Europe, Canada and Australia for decades, and evidence and experience have shown that they are very effective. This may not seem like an obvious way to fight an abuse epidemic, but few other options exist. In the U.S., many cities' efforts to establish such sites have stalled, but now multiple cities have plans to open the country's first officially sanctioned injection sites. Philadelphia expects to do so in 2019. San Francisco, too, hopes to overcome legal and siting obstacles and open its first facilities this year. New York City's mayor has also endorsed setting up multiple sites at current needle-exchange programs.
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Folks that receive opioids in hospitals, returning Vietnam vets, none of these folks had problems.

Addiction is in the mind, it is not a physical problem, this is propaganda.

 

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