Posted on 12/02/2016 1:59:13 PM PST by artichokegrower
Safe Drug Injection Site? That is Democrap-speak for The City and County of San Francisco
where you can watch thousands of their favorite “street persons” shooting up all over town (including right in front of City Hall)
It is a bad idea to shoot drugs no matter where you do it.
these damned political hacks need to try...i know its difficult...try..try...to help people get OFF drugs!!!!
not NOT NOT keep making it easier and cheaper and more confortable for people to get ONTO drugs and to keep SHOOTING and SMOKING up
damn these politicans anyway. they rather have people addicted and dependent so that the politicans get a bigger urban voting block for re-election) It is so DAMNED corrupt and so DAMNED cruel, selfish. These politicians who are enabling and encouraging and paying Americans to get drug-addicted..............should be hung from the nearest lamppost.
Cool a place where Heroin Dealers can operate unmolested
There you go. Personally I like the idea of getting them out of the way in one spot, where law enforcement and social services can deal with them instead of being spread all over the city. After all, supporting a homeless shelter does not mean you support homelessness.
Go ahead, secede you idiots. Please!
California secedes, the producers flee to the U.S., the Freebie Entitlement crowd follows. Rinse/Repeat.
Santa Cruz California started a program to provide free needles to drug users to discourage them from sharing needles. It hasn’t worked out very well.
Santa Cruz County discarded needle count pushes 12,000
SANTA CRUZ – In the nearly four years that the community group Take Back Santa Cruz formed its Needles Solutions Team, volunteers have recorded finding 11,745 used hypodermic needles that were improperly disposed throughout Santa Cruz County — averaging 261 found per month.
Between August and September this year, the group marked a significant spike in found needles, up to 423, but for the right reasons, said Take Back Santa Cruz founder Analicia Cube.
Santa Cruz city officials were involved with cleanups on the San Lorenzo River’s west levee and the Sycamore Grove area off Highway 9 and reported found needles, according to Cube.
Needle finds quick facts
• On Sept. 8: Take Back Santa Cruz self-reporting tool shows a mother reporting that child found a syringe in yard on San Lorenzo Boulevard, mistook it for a thermometer and put it in her mouth. She was not pricked by the needle.
• According to a 2008 Paediatrics and Child Health Journal article, the risk for children pricked by a needle of contracting a bloodborne virus is very low.
• On Aug. 23 on Lee Street, a resident found about 40 needles in an encampment next to her yard.
• General needle “hot spots” include the San Lorenzo River levee, Sycamore Grove, Depot Park, Cowell Beach, Neary Lagoon and Arana Gulch.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/09/20/web-needles-0921/
Not the same as a "safe injection" site.
It hasn’t worked out very well.
That doesn't follow from your article, which doesn't say discarded needles have increased since the program began.
Between August and September this year, the group marked a significant spike in found needles, up to 423, but for the right reasons, said Take Back Santa Cruz founder Analicia Cube.
Santa Cruz city officials were involved with cleanups on the San Lorenzo River’s west levee and the Sycamore Grove area off Highway 9 and reported found needles, according to Cube.
In summary, they found more needles because they looked in the right place.
Also from your article:
"The county’s Syringe Services Program, requires at least a 1 to 1 exchange of an old needle for new, to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases associated with injection drug use and to address improperly discarded syringes. In its June 2016 report the county Health Services Agency reported dispensing 25,355 syringes in the previous year, and collecting 33,599."
“”You like streets/sidewalks/glens to be littered with their needles etc?””
WOW - that’s some analytical skill...and I’m sure the only available solution Ithaca and SF could come up with for the problem - provide SAFE SPACES for them!!!
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