Nation’s First Supervised Drug-Injection Sites Open in New York

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/nyregion/supervised-injection-sites-nyc.html

Nation’s First Supervised Drug-Injection Sites Open in New York

New York, the country’s most populous city, became the first U.S. city to open officially authorized injection sites — facilities that opponents view as magnets for drug abuse but proponents praise as providing a less punitive and more effective approach to addressing addiction.
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WORD: fools

In the Netherlands it worked very well.
Lowering drug related deaths, drug related diseases, minimising society’s problems with drug related petty theft, begging, etc. and helping people off heroin.

Less needles on street corners already is less children being accidentally pricked as they pick stuff up.

Once upon a time bars were illegal...they're just supervised drug ingestion sites

@Earl-of-Trumps said
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/nyregion/supervised-injection-sites-nyc.html

Nation’s First Supervised Drug-Injection Sites Open in New York

New York, the country’s most populous city, became the first U.S. city to open officially authorized injection sites — facilities that opponents view as magnets for drug abuse but proponents praise as providing ...[text shortened]... s punitive and more effective approach to addressing addiction.
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WORD: fools

@Suzianne said
What happened to this? San Francisco was set to open the first one in summer of 2018. What happened?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/07/health/safe-injection-sites-san-francisco-opioid-epidemic-bn

@Earl-of-Trumps said
If you read the link, you will see that they mention Philadelphia and Boston,, but not San Francisco as cities
that previously proposed this program, but backed down for implementing them due to philosophical/moral concerns

@Earl-of-Trumps said
If you read the link, you will see that they mention Philadelphia and Boston,, but not San Francisco as cities
that previously proposed this program, but backed down for implementing them due to philosophical/moral concerns

@Suzianne said
Moral concerns? Not following you here.

Have you even read why New York is doing this?

Government programs should all benefit people. That's what this does, as well as issues which have nearly destroyed marginalized communities the most. This helps people, but people like you try to claim some BS "moral ground", while pointedly failing to ever help these people, unl ...[text shortened]... e they hate is to "get rid of them". This will not address the actual issues. How "moral" is that?

@no1marauder said
What's the libertarian position on people using recreational drugs, Earl?

@Earl-of-Trumps said
Government should actually use force to get these people into a *true* rehab.
Giving addicts the tools to enhance their addiction is morally repugnant.

My *opinion*

@Suzianne said
Yeah, never mind how it might actually help the rest of society that you claim to be a part of.

@Suzianne said
Yeah, never mind how it might actually help the rest of society that you claim to be a part of.


And just what is *true* rehab to you? Shock "therapy"? Jail? Why not just build a concentration camp for them and gas them on arrival? Yeah, then you can start sending trans people, gay people, all the people that disagree with Trump. The sky's the limit!

@Earl-of-Trumps said
no no, Suzi, that's *my* argument.

your method makes the problem grow by telling society that government will accept this scurrilous behavior.
And here's how:
The addicts get free needles, free injections by doctors, free narcan, and free medical services at the hospital.

this encourages a society that tolerates this deadly behavior and there are 50 thousand addicts year dying of overdose.

@Suzianne

I had older data. so that makes it worse.

@shavixmir said
In the Netherlands it worked very well.
Lowering drug related deaths, drug related diseases, minimising society’s problems with drug related petty theft, begging, etc. and helping people off heroin.

Less needles on street corners already is less children being accidentally pricked as they pick stuff up.

...helping people...