Mayor wants to open supervised injection facility for heroin in NY city

FOXNEWS ^ | Feb. 22, 2016 | Cody Derespina

[mass55th]

"We have people shooting up in alleys. In bathroom stalls. And too many of them are dying."

Bad lifestyle choices.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

One upstate New York city is planning an unconventional approach to combating a growing heroin epidemic: Letting addicts shoot up on government property under the supervision of medical professionals.

These do-gooders should make it a requirement that anyone using this service also be required to attend counseling sessions leading to rehab. I've never heard of a single person addicted to heroin for more than a few months who wants to remain that way - if government is going to spend taxpayer money providing facilities for addicts to shoot up, it's incumbent that the addicts be required to start their transition to getting clean.

[ConservingFreedom]

This is what they've successfully done in Vancouver (although government supplying 'free' drugs does stick in my craw) - from Wood E, Tyndall MW, Montaner JS, Kerr T (November 2006). "Summary of findings from the evaluation of a pilot medically supervised safer injecting facility" Canadian Medical Association Journal 175 (11): 1399-404:

"Before the facility was opened, there were concerns that it would result in increased crime rates in the neighbourhood as a result of the migration of drug dealers and drug users toward the facility and subsequent increases in drug dealing and drug acquisition crime.³⁶ The analysis of public order indicators described above showed that suspected drug dealing did not increase in the vicinity of the facility and that public drug use declined.²⁵ In addition, police statistics during the year before versus the year after the facility opened showed that crime rates remained stable in the neighbourhood where the facility is located. Specifically, the facility's opening has not been associated with increases in charges for drug dealing or several markers of drug-related crime, including assaults, robbery and vehicle break-ins.³⁷

"Before the facility opened, there were also concerns that providing a safe and sterile place for injection drug use could reduce the likelihood that IDUs would seek addiction treatment and would result in increased rates of injection drug use.³⁶ As indicated in the section on referral for addiction treatment and other care, use of the facility has been associated with an increased uptake of detoxification services, which suggests that the facility has not resulted in a reduced number of IDUs seeking addiction treatment.³³ Similarly, comparing the 1-year periods before and after the facility opened revealed no evidence that the provision of a safe and sterile place for injection drug use has resulted in increased rates of relapse into injection drug use or decreased rates of cessation of injection drug use in the community.³⁸ Finally, an additional study involving all participants recruited into the cohort by Oct. 21, 2005, demonstrated that the program has not been associated with increases in new initiates into injection drug use.^39"

[CIB-173RDABN]

Now that is funny, and most likely true.

I personally do not mind “double post” since there is so much information on FR and I only stop by to scan the headlines, I miss a lot.

So the more the better.

[JimRed]

We have people shooting up in alleys. In bathroom stalls. And too many of them are dying.

Too few are dying. If enough of them died new recruits would be exponentially harder to come by.

[MasterGunner01]

Dear New Yorkers: elections have consequences. And now you have Bill di Blasio as Mayor.