[PROCON]

.."It's {heroin addiction} no longer a fringe issue," Frederique said. "It's being talked about at every kitchen table in the country..

How out-of-touch these liberal do-gooders are.

Reminds me of the movie, "Idiocracy."

[tet68]

Ithaca city of EVIL.

[tet68]

I remember a SiFi novel about government heroin
I want to say “Future Shock” but I’m not sure.
Didn’t end well for sure.

[ConservingFreedom]

Same story at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3400528/posts

[Jim Noble]

And too many of them are dying

Value judgement.

[soycd]

A self inflicted problem. Sticking needles in your arms ain’t no way to be productive. Stick to whiskey bottles and brand new cars while watching out for Oak trees ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz1x28DHF08

[yuleeyahoo]

What could possibly go wrong?

[eyeamok]

Seeds of Terror
How heroin is bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda.
http://failuremag.com/feature/article/seeds_of_terror/#ixzz35QhbgQ8K

Drug shipments off of Africa have “significantly increased since 2009”
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=data/international/2014/June/international_June26.xml&section=international

Drug trafficking, kidnapping fund al Qaeda
By Rachel Ehrenfeld, Special to CNN -May 4, 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/03/ehrenfeld.al.qaeda.funding/

Qatar used as transit point by drug traffickers: Expert 2013
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/qatar/253421/qatar-used-as-transit-point-by-drug-traffickers-expert-

Obama secretly released high risk Taliban terrorists to the care of Qatar. (Qatar is where the US established for Taliban headquarters in 2011.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-offers-the-taliban-a-new-mideast-headquarters-2011-9

Islamic Revolutionaries under any name you google are tied to the Heroin trade along with most other drugs, as well as human trafficking.
http://www.newsweek.com/2013/06/12/talibans-new-role-afghanistans-drug-mafia-237524.html

Heroin production hits record levels in Afghanistan - study
http://rt.com/news/156128-afghanistan-drugs-usa-heroin/

Drug War? American Troops Are Protecting Afghan Opium. U.S. Occupation Leads to All-Time High Heroin Production
http://www.globalresearch.ca/drug-war-american-troops-are-protecting-afghan-opium-u-s-occupation-leads-to-all-time-high-heroin-production/5358053

Terrorists in “Americas Back Yard”

State Department Reports Hezbollah Increasing Drug and Terrorism in South America 2013
http://interamericansecuritywatch.com/exporting-terror-in-americas-backyard/
“There has indeed been a “marked resurgence” of Iranian state sponsorship of terrorism over the past 18 months. But as the new Nisman report drives home, here’s an even more disturbing fact — Iran has run intelligence networks in the United States’ backyard to “sponsor, foster and execute terrorist attacks” for decades.”

“Criminal plans” by Iran could be under way in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago, the report said.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/world/americas/iran-latin-america/

Mexican Cartels Buying Afghan Heroin
http://www.banderasnews.com/1101/nr-afghanheroin.htm

Obama’s America:

“The horrific toll of America’s heroin ‘epidemic”
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26672422
America’s Heroin Epidemic -BBC 2014

The SEC sees no evil while Wall Street banks launder $BILLIONS in cartel
money. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs

Hedge Fund Manager, Banker, and the largest Individual donor to Obama’s coiffeurs, continues to pour $Millions into thenDrug Legalization Campaign, made to look like citizen activism. George Soros 2/2014
http://www.hightimes.com/read/how-one-percent-will-legalize-marijuana

As “medical marijuana” legalization spreads across the country, police and other industry warnings about the dangers of legalizing marijuana ignored by media
http://www.flsheriffs.org/newsroom/entry/florida-sheriffs-pass-resolution-to-oppose-the-legalization-of-marijuana

DEA has been caught laundering money as well, “Agency officials declined to publicly discuss details of their work, citing concerns about compromising their investigations.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/world/americas/us-drug-agents-launder-profits-of-mexican-cartels.html?_r=3&pagewanted=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&;;

Mexican Diplomat Says America Pretty Much Invited The Sinaloa Drug Cartel Across The Border
http://www.businessinsider.com/stratfor-the-us-works-with-cartels-2012-9#ixzz36vAJbBpS

Obama shut down the NDIC in 2012, the itelligence agency dedicated to tracking terrorism funded by drug trafficking.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/tag/national-drug-intelligence-center/
“Mexican cartel violence is at an all-time high along the increasingly porous southern border yet the Obama Administration has shut down a critical intelligence agency dedicated to identifying, tracking and severing the nexus between drug trafficking and terrorism.”

CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With SINALOA Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel (They claimed feds agreed they could traffic into Chicago) JAN. 13, 2014
more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl

U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners
Written by Alex Newman Jan. 2014
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/17396-u-s-government-and-top-mexican-drug-cartel-exposed-as-partners

The link between drugs and crime, including violent crime, would be hard to overstate in Chicago. Eighty-six percent of adult males arrested in Chicago last year tested positive for drug use. Chicago, with a population of 2.7 million, had 506 murders in 2012, the highest per capita among the four most populous U.S. cities.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/heroin-pushed-on-chicago-by-cartel-fueling-gang-murders.html

The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates (cooking the books)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/

Dirty doctors, Russian mafia fueling prescription drug and heroin abuse in N.J., investigation finds
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/07/nj_state_commission_of_investigation_prescription_drug_heroin_abuse.html

Opiates are now the leading cause of accidental deaths, surpassing car crashes and alcohol. http://elitedaily.com/news/world/prescription-painkillers-overtake-car-crashes-leading-accidental-death-us/

Banks Laundering Cartel Drug Money -Rampant
http://www.globalresearch.ca/money-laundering-and-the-drug-trade-the-role-of-the-banks/5334205

BORDER CRISIS: CONGRESSMAN SAYS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ‘CAUSING HUMAN TRAFFICKING’
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/05/Congressman-Illegls-Aliens-Rise-Obama-Advertises-If%20you-Come-You-Can-Stay

Cartels Exploit Immigration Crisis To Smuggle More Drugs Across Border
By Frank Diez July 03, 2014
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/07/03/cartels-exploit-immigration-crisis-to-smuggle-more-drugs-across-border/

Mexican Cartels are Behind Border Crisis -2014
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-s-cartels-are-behind-the-border-kid-crisis.html

Drug dealing, informant get border pass -2014
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/informant-gets-free-border-pass-675432

EXCLUSIVE: Photos Show Drugs Pouring Over Southern Arizona Border as Agent Resources are Overwhelmed Jul 08, 2014
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/07/08/exclusive-photos-show-drugs-pouring-over-southern-arizona-border-n1859982

The Obama Administration’s Human Trafficking
July 11, 2014 by Arnold
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/the-obama-administrations-human-trafficking/

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[I want the USA back]

Sure. And they are paid by the taxpayers to destroy their health.

[capydick]

Just when you think they can’t sink any lower......

[TruthWillWin]

Was in San Francisco airport a few weeks ago and in the mens room were needle disposal boxes mounted on the wall next to the hand towel dispensers?

[lacrew]

I live in KS...Denver, CO has a needle exchange program.

An addict in KS gets caught with needles, he gets arrested.

An addict in Denver gets caught with a needle, he shows the cop a card that gives him permission to possess drug paraphernalia.

So...I’ve known people who have travelled from KS to Denver for this very reason. Once you’ve lost your job and burned through all the goodwill of your friends, you have no roots...and Denver beckons.

So I’m sure Ithaca will draw quite a crowd.

I happen to believe that the best ‘first step’ in quitting heroin is forcible...as in get arrested, and your family wises up and won’t bail you out. This program in Ithaca will stop that first step, and likely more people will die or ruin their lives.

Then there’s the whole matter of how the hell the heroin gets to New York. That ‘supervised medical setting’ is likely at the tail end of a trail blazed by Mexican drug lords and marked with decapitated heads.

[mrsmith]

“Here’s your shot. And here’s your voter registration form. “

[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"

[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.