this is NOT the church of my youth....
instead of working against the drug culture, they are trying to make it safer, which can never ever happen...
It eats your heart out when someone who could've been saved dies. But it's not that simple. Enabling bad behavior only leads to even worse bad behavior.
What's the answer? I'm getting all religious and philosophical and scared. Perhaps the only answer for mankind is a collapse of civilization, with what emerges afterward more self-reliant and responsible....until it spins out of control for yet another cycle.
Saving human lives is certainly the work of the Church. It is likely too that the church lets people who ask for help with a drug problem what area services are available. They may even offer counseling service themselves. They probably also see far too often the absolute heartbreak caused by a person dying from an O.D. So if passing out the kits means more families will not lose a daughter, son, husband, wife, mom, dad, sister, brother, cousin or other loved one, I support what this church did.