Shooting Smack the Right Way

[chanel]

It's dope for dummies.

A New York City-funded guidebook for heroin users is offering information on how to prepare drugs carefully and how to care for veins to avoid infection.

But the state's top official with the Drug Enforcement Administration called it a "step-by-step instruction on how to inject a poison." DEA Special Agent-In-Charge John Gilbride says the handout is "very disturbing."

The 16-page pamphlet features helpful tips for dopeheads like: "Warm your body (jump up and down) to show your veins," and "find your vein before you try to inject." Other tips include: "Only 'boot' once or twice in one shot."

The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene printed about 70,000 copies of the handout, which reportedly cost $32,000.

NYC's Heroin How-To Handbook Not A Hit | NBC New York

 

[William Joyce]

Love how NYC spends those tax dollars.

 

[Oddball]

Remember this one when they tell you that they'll have to cut police, fire and EMS if they don't raise taxes.

 

[AkronGuy]

It's the lesser of two evils.

 

[jillian]

how much more money does it cost to provide medical care because they contracted hepatitis and HIV from sharing needles?

let's tell them to 'just say no', eh?

 

[chanel]

They are criminals. We don't use taxpayer dollars to tell liquor store robbers how to shoot the clerk in the leg so they don't get charged with murder.

Teaching people how to do illegal things the "right way" condones the behavior. If they want to kill themselves, so be it. One less junkie robbing a liquor store.

 

[AkronGuy]

They are criminals. We don't use taxpayer dollars to tell liquor store robbers how to shoot the clerk in the leg so they don't get charged with murder.

Teaching people how to do illegal things the "right way" condones the behavior. If they want to kill themselves, so be it. One less junkie robbing a liquor store.

They already know how to do it. It's just showing them how to do it as safely as is possible considering what they're doing. It's cheaper to pay for pamphlets, clean water, ties and needles than it is paying for hep and aids drugs.

 

[jillian]

They are criminals. We don't use taxpayer dollars to tell liquor store robbers how to shoot the clerk in the leg so they don't get charged with murder.

Teaching people how to do illegal things the "right way" condones the behavior. If they want to kill themselves, so be it. One less junkie robbing a liquor store.

maybe it shouldn't be illegal to be an addict?

just because you want to "punish" them, doesn't mean we shouldn't lower the societal cost to the extent possible.

i do so love that pretend "compassionate conservatism".

 

[Baruch Menachem]

You know, it might just be time to rethink, or even start to think for the first time, about the nation's drug laws...?

 

[manifold]

I never knew there was a right way to do heroin.

Go figure.

 

[manifold]

I hear the next offering is how to minimize the risk associated with purse snatching.

tips like:

- older ladies carry more cash
- target women that are alone
- 5 minutes of stretching beforehand limits your chances of pulling a hammie.

 

[chanel]

Ha ha.A lot of kids smoke dope, drink beer, and fool around when they drive. They should teach them how to do that "safely" in their drivers ed classes. Who wants to see kids crash????

RiDICKulous!

 

[Anguille]

It's dope for dummies.

A New York City-funded guidebook for heroin users is offering information on how to prepare drugs carefully and how to care for veins to avoid infection.

But the state's top official with the Drug Enforcement Administration called it a "step-by-step instruction on how to inject a poison." DEA Special Agent-In-Charge John Gilbride says the handout is "very disturbing."

The 16-page pamphlet features helpful tips for dopeheads like: "Warm your body (jump up and down) to show your veins," and "find your vein before you try to inject." Other tips include: "Only 'boot' once or twice in one shot."

The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene printed about 70,000 copies of the handout, which reportedly cost $32,000.

NYC's Heroin How-To Handbook Not A Hit | NBC New York

The war on drugs is a lost cause because it's a hoax. This war on HIV infection, overdose death and illicit drug related disease has a better chance of being won.

 

[manifold]

In the end, natural selection always wins.

 

[Anguille]

Ha ha.A lot of kids smoke dope, drink beer, and fool around when they drive. They should teach them how to do that "safely" in their drivers ed classes. Who wants to see kids crash????

RiDICKulous!

They do. They are taught it has no place in a moving car.

 

[chanel]

Ha ha.A lot of kids smoke dope, drink beer, and fool around when they drive. They should teach them how to do that "safely" in their drivers ed classes. Who wants to see kids crash????

RiDICKulous!