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Originally Posted by chemgear
Instead we're letting addicts and 12 year old kids hooked on hardcore drugs dictate what they want to do. They do drugs.
The fact that 10 and 12 year olds are allowed to override their parents wishes and continue to kill themselves with drugs is wild and shows how far the pendulum has swung on government enablement.
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That's not what the article says though. It says that those decisions were made by health care providers. We also don't know why health care providers made the decisions they did. I don't think locking kids in mental health care facilities solely because that's what the parents want sets a great precedent.
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####, are kids allowed to even legally allowed to decide to skip school? Are they allowed to shoplift or burn down houses? But fentanyl? Government says hey, here's some needles, go nuts kid! #### what your parents want for you.
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The choice is to either give people clean supplies that allow them to use drugs in a manner that reduces the chances of them getting and spreading infectious diseases (i.e., hepatitis, HIV, etc.). This has the knock-on effect of reducing strain on an already overburdened health care system.
We know that this policy works because the infectious diseases associated with drug use have gone down since these policies have been implemented.
What is the alternative that you're suggesting?