Because Govt Cares About Health: Free Crack Pipes (Mexican, illegal aliens, borders)
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Grant funds must be used primarily to support the following required harm reduction
activities:
• Assess organizational readiness and create a strategic action plan based upon
identified strengths, gaps (including those related to social determinants of
health), and opportunities for capacity development required to implement an
evidence-based harm reduction program at the service delivery and
organizational levels. This strategic action plan should be developed by the
midpoint of Year 1 and will be supported by the Harm Reduction TA Center
(https://www.cdc.gov/harmreductionta/index.html).
• Develop a sustainability plan to ensure that harm reduction program elements
are continued after the grant period ends. This could include collaboration with
community partners to share resources or a cost sharing element.
• Develop policies and procedures to implement evidence-based trauma-informed
practices throughout each level of the organizational structure.
• Distribute FDA-approved overdose reversal medication and deliver overdose
prevention education to target populations regarding the consumption of
substances including but not limited to opioids and their synthetic analogs.
• Establish processes, protocols, mechanisms for referral to treatment and
recovery support services, referral to treatment for infectious diseases such as
HIV, STIs, and viral hepatitis.
• Assemble a harm reduction advisory council that meets regularly to guide
program activities and project implementation. Group members should include
people who use drugs (PWUD), individuals in recovery, harm reduction service
providers and other key community members such as public safety officers,
mental health providers and treatment providers.
• Designate staff (e.g., Program Coordinator and/or Program Evaluator) to provide
program design, implementation, and evaluation to meet grant program and
reporting requirements.
• Purchase equipment and supplies to enhance harm reduction efforts, such as:
o Harm reduction vending machine(s), including stock for machines;
o Infectious diseases testing kits (HIV, HBV, HCV, etc.);
o Medication lock boxes;
o FDA-approved overdose reversal medication (as well as higher dosages
now approved by FDA);
o Safe sex kits, including PrEP resources and condoms;
o Safe smoking kits/supplies;
o Screening for infectious diseases (HIV, sexually transmitted infections,
viral hepatitis);
o Sharps disposal and medication disposal kits;
o Substance test kits, including test strips for fentanyl and other synthetic
drugs;
o Syringes to prevent and control the spread of infectious diseases;
o Vaccination services (hepatitis A, hepatitis B vaccination); and
o Wound care management supplies.
Media making it sound like that is the only thing being done, rather than an example in a list of a sub bullet.
Drug users won't disappear overnight, so giving them supplies to keep them safe, limit infections and try to convince people to smoke instead of injecting drugs because injections are reportedly riskier, is a good program.
The project doesn't cost that much - what is $30M really nowadays, especially compared to some of the really foolish spendings.
The money could be a good investment, even if only saves few lives and changes drug habits in small group of users.
I have no problem with that spending.
We all want to eliminate druggies and related crimes and homelessness, no?
Every little bit helps...
People who inject drugs do so because it gives them a quicker and more intense high. They aren’t going to go back to smoking drugs because someone gives them a free pipe.
Drug users won't disappear overnight, so giving them supplies to keep them safe, limit infections and try to convince people to smoke instead of injecting drugs because injections are reportedly riskier, is a good program. The project doesn't cost that much - what is $30M really nowadays, especially compared to some of the really foolish spendings.
Ridiculous thinking. 30,000,000 is a lot and... Making it easier for someone to use crack does not keep them safe.
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