Posted on 09/07/2022 6:59:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
$3.6 million project will distribute syringes to country's overdose 'epicenter'
The Biden administration is set to spend $3.6 million to deploy vending machines filled with drug supplies in rural Kentucky—an effort the Biden administration claims will reduce stigma for drug users.
The project from the National Institutes of Health was launched in August and will study the effectiveness of "harm reduction kiosks" in rural Appalachia that contain "injection equipment, naloxone, fentanyl test strips, hygiene kits, condoms, and other supplies." The vending machines allow drug users to obtain items such as syringes without interacting with a health professional, in hopes of eliminating the "stigma" that comes with visiting an in-person harm reduction facility, according to the health agency.
The White House referenced the project in an August 31 press release on its actions taken "to address addiction and the overdose epidemic." The administration has adopted a wide range of harm reduction policies, which aim to make illicit drug use safer rather than eliminate it.
The Washington Free Beacon in February reported that the Department of Health and Human Services was set to fund the distribution of crack pipes through a $30 million harm reduction grant program. The administration backed off the funding plans amid public backlash, and the New York Times reported that the uproar over plans to fund crack pipes "derailed" Biden's drug policy agenda. The White House, however, still appears willing to adopt controversial harm reduction policies—the New York Times reported in July that Biden's drug czar Dr. Rahul Gupta was supportive of legalized injection sites, which allow users to take drugs with supervision from health professionals.
The new study, which is conducted by the University of Kentucky, appears to be the first effort from the federal government to deploy harm-reduction vending machines. Harm reduction vending machines have been popularized in Canada, Australia, and other countries. A few U.S. states, including New York, Rhode Island, Ohio, and Nevada, have deployed the machines in recent years. The machines sometimes include smoking kits, which in many cases include crack pipes.
The University of Kentucky declined to comment, directing the Free Beacon‘s inquiry to the NIH. The National Institute on Drug Abuse, which heads the project at the NIH, told the Free Beacon that along with drug paraphernalia, the vending machines will include "food kits, water, socks and gloves, feminine hygiene products, wound care, and resources/guides." The agency did not respond to questions regarding the status of the kiosk program.
Deep States like their populations ignorant, impoverished, and stoned.
Those citizens are much easier to rule.
The Kentucky governor is a leftist kook elected by our leftist so-called teachers of the state.
We do have a Republican legislature if they have the fortitude to act-they don’t. Our Republican AG will probably be the one to fight this latest idiocy by the progressives.
I understand the efforts by these liberals but it simply will not help.
Dead drug addicts are more reliable Democrat voters than live drug addicts.
Remember this
Everything the mafia used to do illegally the US Government has made legal and controls.
What, demoncrats not selling enough drugs in the rural areas.??
Will a machine to dispense medicine for cognitive decline be put in the White House?
To take away the stigma of getting treatment ?
Funnily enough, IMHO, most druggies are Dimocrats.
Hunter and Friends, for example.
Broken people, barely able to function, can be kept alive and voting with welfare, for a fairly long lifetime.
It is sort of like raising livestock.
They’re doing this “to address addiction.” Guess they think we need more of it.
Best way to reduce the drug problem is to stop trying to save drug overdosers. (would cut down on crime too)
“Little do they realize it is THEIR OWN VOTERS THEY WILL BE ASSISSTING IN SUICIDE!”
Their constituents are more reliable voters after they are dead.
I need to find a vending machine. I have had to beg my dentist for a syringe (minus the needle) to use as an oiler for some small parts on devices I sometimes repair. The needle would make oiling easier.
This is a signal that soon the police will not be allowed to arrest drug dealers, users, prostitutes or the homeless running drugs and hookers on public property and private business properties.
In WA fine cities, they began years ago, highlighting the motels on the strip as housing drug addicts and hookers, and began pushing for the demolition of these private businesses “for the good of the community”. They demolished some, and sold the property to nicer motels and hotels, in exchange for the Best Western and other places remodeling for the homeless and addicted can live their while cleaning up. The problem is, there are no rules that they must be in treatment, cannot be using drugs, alcohol or running prostitution rings out of them. The same business model that a small hotel was using, is now run by HIGH VALUE businesses, and their paying clients are THE TAXPAYER.
When they destroy a city like this, they then have more voters who will show up at city council meetings, or lose their “fat gig”. They then are used as a reason for more mass transit, then the people like them are moved farther out of the city center and the process is repeated.
an effort the Biden administration claims will reduce stigma for drug users.
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Can anybody think of a sane reason why drug abusers should not be stigmatized?
Enabling addiction.
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