Posted on 12/06/2005 1:33:42 PM PST by ivyleaguebrat
Dec 06 8:12 AM US/Eastern
Health authorities in Canada's westernmost province want to make the country's first test facility for heroin injection permanent and are considering opening additional clinics to meet the huge demand. The Vancouver facility was set up in 2003, against US opposition, as a three-year experiment exempt from Canadian drug laws.
Since then the clinic, North America's only such operation, has run at capacity, with some 800 heroin injections daily.
"It's all-round positive, with no downsides," said Perry Kendall, British Columbia province's chief medical officer.
Kendall said the clinic achieved its goal to cut overdose deaths and rates of hepatitis and HIV infection. Although its exemption from drug laws will not expire until September 2006, this month he applied to Health Canada to make the facility permanent.
With a federal election currently underway in Canada, a decision will likely take months.
The clinic looks like an innocuous storefront in Vancouvers squalid Downtown Eastside district, Canada's most impoverished neighbourhood with more than 5,000 heroin addicts concentrated in a 10-block area.
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Perhaps we should send all our pot heads, coke and heroin addicts to Canada.
From my link at #15:
"The woman was stretched out on the steps and she was shooting a needle into her neck. When the volunteer complained, she lashed out at her – how dare she interfere with her when she just managed to get this needle in the right position to inject?"
I didn't read the entire article, but I can only guess that the "innocuous looking storefront" is not only a place to go get injected with heroin, but also to register to vote?
Yes, let's solve the drug problem by offering MORE DRUGS. Let's make drugs acceptable to all, so no one feeeeels bad when they become addicts.
This approach sounds to me like government assisted suicide.
That's exactly what it is. They don't care for people, they're just managing an inconvenient problem in the way that is best for the managers.
Should they show their "care" by tossing them in prison?
Dealers already face a significant threath of death from competitors, unhappy suppliers, and twitchy customers ... yet there is no shortage of dealers, and when one disappears someone steps in to take his place. The death penalty would have little effect.
What do the people that got run over by the cars driven by drunks have to say about the legality of alcohol?
No, I was just pointing out the lie inherent in their "we care" BS that is the Left's main marketing point.
The death penalty would have little effect.
We'll never know until it's been tried for a year of two.
You cut out my entire argument and then claim ignorance ... how dishonest.
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