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Originally Posted by stampsx2
So what’s the solution? Should we get rid of self injection sites?
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There is no easy solution for drug addiction. The failure of the war on drug should tell you that.
The first step is recognizing that drugs is a real social problem with psychological causes rather than saying it's ok to do drugs and provide free needles. We seem to be working on softening the symptoms and effects rather than the cause though.
These are people that have real problems and can be seen as victims, but those drug addicts have made a conscious choice with repercussions, and that choice victimizes others around them.
The whole idea of feeding and promoting drug addiction and simply saying "here's some free needles you can use here if you wish, but if you do not that's fine too" seems backwards thinking. They can and will still die of overdose as they have the choice not to shoot up in the safe injection site.
All the alternatives always seem to get a half baked response:
- Can only use needles at the safe injection site - drug addicts will not come onsite
- Start a needle exchange program - drug addicts will not keep their needles and discourages them from coming in
So the solution was to just give free needles? Who cares about neighborhoods affected, about the parks in the inner city, where children and pets do exist. People for the safe injection site likely have not stepped in the beltline in the past year for extended periods to see what it has become.
Safe injection sites, at least the way it is designed in Calgary with the total divide between province and city, propagate a problem rather than mitigate. Calling it a safe injection site is heavily misleading the pubic, as there is little injecting happening onsite as designed.
Ask someone : do you believe in a safe injection site and ask someone : do you believe in a free needle distribution site. One will get much more favourable answers.
Needles are a total biohazard, the province just simply shifted the risk from addicts on to unsuspecting victims walking their dog in the neighborhood.