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Originally Posted by corporatejay
What is the recovery rate of people using heavy drugs like this? Like it's a nice story that we are all about tolerance and helping the "underprivileged" but if most of these people will be junkies and a social drain until the day they die, what are we really doing here? Sacrificing the health and safety of law abiding citizens for persons who have chosen a high risk lifestyle with severe consequences? That seems crazy.
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I own property which is directly beside Chumir. The increase in crime and drop in reputation and quality of life/property value sucks, but I want to find a way to co-exist rather than say "no more safe injection sites, it's a failed concept".
While there are many who chose to take drugs at first, there are many who want off that train but cannot get off of it due to the addiction. For that reason, I was supportive of the safe injection site and it didn't bug me too much it was going to be at Chumir.
The problem is that the safe injection site isn't so much a safe injection site, but more like a convenient needle dispensary. Things went to hell in a hand basket and CPS + Government is turning a blind eye instead of looking for ways to fix the concept and allow better co-existence of the community and the "safe injection site". This pisses me off.
A crazy conversation I had with someone who was fed up with the issue was that we should be throwing more money at the problem, not less. The solution was to essentially offer a permanent solution. Hand some of these individuals who go to the safe injection site consistently over a period of several months $2,000 cash or fully paid recovery program (one time offer one or the other). For those who take the cash, you can hope they kill each other for it, or stop using forever with a smile on their face.
However, there are some who legitimately want to stop using but cannot by themselves, who may take the recovery program (which apparently are as expensive as $300-500 a day and the average stay is 3-4 months). Said persons in theory would recover and then be removed from the population. That's a pretty grim and screwed up way to think of things but I think the idea was to separate those that were trapped on the drug bandwagon by choice and those that were legitimately unable to get off by themselves.
I honestly don't know how to fix things. I just seem to know that it's not in the direction of the old status quo nor the current mess of the implementation of the safe injection site.
I truly am still hoping for a successful implementation of the safe injection site. It maddens me that both the safe injection site is a failure AND the community is in a mess. That's just stupid.