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Originally Posted by jayswin
I'll think about this more and respond later. On the surface your original post came off ugly and dehumanizing, but after this maybe there's more to it (like when people are harsher when it affects them personally).
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Yes, could be. It's not academic or philosophical for me.
A good portion of junkies have people in their lives trying to hold things together while their loved one is off the rails. You giving my family member easy and free access to needles is not helpful to us. Prolonging the difficulty, expense, energy waste, confusion, and stress for the junkie's family is not beneficial to anyone: not society, not people that are the collateral damage of users and definitely not junkies. Making it easier for them to get high is the biggest a-hole move in the world and a slap in the face to people actually trying to help them.
The City of Calgary should not be in the business of helping hard drug addicts get high. It's preposterous. I'd even be fine with cages and cold turkey before I'd hand someone a free needle and then slap on the defibrillator to keep them going. First step is counselling and sobriety, though. Then only way to do this is to lock them in a facility away from their lives and their junkie friends.
Adding more needles to the City is so stupid. I'd way rather 100 junkies share one needle than give 100 junkies 100 needles for them to only safely dispose of three of them.