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As cities across the US reject legalized heroin injection sites and needle exchanges, Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning to resurrect a long-delayed plan to open supervised heroin injection sites in New York City, even as the Big Apple grapples with a massive surge in overdose deaths and open air drug use on city streets in the middle of the day.
During a news conference Tuesday, de Blasio called the shooting galleries "...an idea whose time has come" and said he was moving forward with the controversial proposal he first promoted in 2018 because he had "the kind of potential cooperation" he needed from President Joe Biden and New York Governor Kathy Hochul. Current front-runner in the New York City race for the mayor's office Eric Adams, has said that he supports the heroin dens even though he opposes other decriminalization efforts.
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Politico reported on Monday that the city Health Department was "moving aggressively" to open the first two out of four proposed sites. Earlier this month, Hochul signed a law decriminalizing the possession or sale of hypodermic needles and syringes. The new law led to the NYPD issuing a directive allowing addicts to shoot up in public.
This is simply demonic stuff in how they are legalizing the destruction of lives.
No one helps the drug trade more than the US government. Between the vaccine, the heroin, the fentanyl... it's amazing to see.
Good. Treating addiction as an illness that needs to be treated instead of as a criminal behavior is extremely smart, and something that's been proven to work multiple times.
Yeah - hard to commit offenses when people are incapacitated by drugs. Yay - the streets are safe. You just have to step over the people stoned out of their minds on the ground.
This is a totally hopeless outlook on humanity.
They talk of purchasing the necessary needles... who is purchasing the drugs? Who is getting rich from drug trafficking and production?
Safe injection sites aren’t anything new. They’ve been around for decades. You could argue it’s enabling. I think it’s more convincingly argued that it’s acknowledging reality, introducing addicts to all-to-rare benevolence that can make them less afraid of seeking help, making both them and the public at large safer in the process.
As cities across the US reject legalized heroin injection sites and needle exchanges, Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning to resurrect a long-delayed plan to open supervised heroin injection sites in New York City, even as the Big Apple grapples with a massive surge in overdose deaths and open air drug use on city streets in the middle of the day.
During a news conference Tuesday, de Blasio called the shooting galleries "...an idea whose time has come" and said he was moving forward with the controversial proposal he first promoted in 2018 because he had "the kind of potential cooperation" he needed from President Joe Biden and New York Governor Kathy Hochul. Current front-runner in the New York City race for the mayor's office Eric Adams, has said that he supports the heroin dens even though he opposes other decriminalization efforts.
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Politico reported on Monday that the city Health Department was "moving aggressively" to open the first two out of four proposed sites. Earlier this month, Hochul signed a law decriminalizing the possession or sale of hypodermic needles and syringes. The new law led to the NYPD issuing a directive allowing addicts to shoot up in public.
This is simply demonic stuff in how they are legalizing the destruction of lives.
No one helps the drug trade more than the US government. Between the vaccine, the heroin, the fentanyl... it's amazing to see.
I think it is a great idea. Other states could bus their homeless heroin addicts to NYC. Happiness everywhere would abound.
I don't have a problem with this. It seems outrageous initially as it seems like the city is supporting and feeding these people's habit. But these people are going to inject regardless, using dirty needles and sharing infected blood if left to their own devices, which means more disease spread and more cost to care for sickly people. So, regardless, the taxpayer is going to end up paying something. I'll take the option of having better health outcomes if I can, which I suspect would also be cheaper in the long run.
It's either that or lock addicts up for years to keep them off the street, which has it's own problems with costs and other considerations. Turning a blind eye and doing nothing won't solve anything.
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