Safe injection sites in San Francisco could be first in the US
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#2The article comes from https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/07/health/safe-injection-sites-s..., which has the better title but also an autoplaying video, so we'll use the title but stick with this URL.
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#3The very lefty mayor of Paris launched one « safe site » in the city.
Results : disneyland for drug dealers and addicts in the area, dead people (OD) in the street, noise, fights...
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#4It is like they are testing there how far they could go.
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#5Here in Vancouver the safe injection sites have saved countless lives and drastically lowered needle sharing. There's a big misconception that safe injection sites somehow promote drug use. They save lives and give people a legitimate pathway to get clean if they choose to. Do the right thing, SF!
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#6Here in Vancouver the safe injection sites have saved countless lives and drastically lowered needle sharing. There's a big misconception that safe injection sites somehow promote drug use. They save lives and give people a legitimate pathway to get clean if they choose to. Do the right thing, SF!
It might be a hard sell to use Vancouver as a model. It has an area which is perhaps the most public display of social decay I've ever encounted in a first-world city, principally from drug abuse.
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#7The very lefty mayor of Paris launched one « safe site » in the city. Results : disneyland for drug dealers and addicts in the area, dead people (OD) in the street, noise, fights...
Sources for this would be very helpful. Always interested in alternative viewpoints!
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#8Here in Vancouver the safe injection sites have saved countless lives and drastically lowered needle sharing. There's a big misconception that safe injection sites somehow promote drug use. They save lives and give people a legitimate pathway to get clean if they choose to. Do the right thing, SF!
It might be a hard sell to use Vancouver as a model. It has an area which is perhaps the most public display of social decay I've ever encounted in a first-world city, principally from drug abuse.
As someone with no stake in this, I would rather have all of that decay in one place I can avoid rather than strewn about my city.
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#9The individuals who are using these drugs already use them openly in the street. I see them daily on my way to work as I work in a popular area for vagrants/homeless.
If it prevents me from stepping on needles and seeing blood from people shooting up on the street, I am all for it. These individuals will use one way or another if they want to so giving them a place to do it safely off the street seems acceptable.
Of course, the ideal solution will be to eliminate heroin and other hard drug use but this is a start.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It might be a hard sell to use Vancouver as a model. It has an area which is perhaps the most public display of social decay I've ever encounted in a first-world city, principally from drug abuse.
As someone with no stake in this, I would rather have all of that decay in one place I can avoid rather than strewn about my city.
But realistically that does nothing to solve the problem. We could just designate SF the safe injection site for the USA and the problem would be out of view for the rest of the population.