 Court rules against Ottawa in injection site case A B.C. judge has ruled that the federal government cannot constitutionally shut down Vancouver's safe-injection site.Commentsview comments in forum You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Hmm, I wonder what other addictions we'll have to cater to soon?
I seriously hope obesity is one. Maybe the environmentalists will get gas guzzling as a disorder.
Free gas stations for Gas Guzzling Disorder!
This is a bad decision.
Considering these people are doing these drugs because of a serious physical addiction, I'd rather "the taxpayers" provide a place for them to do it under supervision instead of them shooting up in alleys and parks and leaving dirty needles on the ground where someone could accidently be infected with some disease, or a child could find them.
SAN FRANCISCO — City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation's first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses.
Hoping to reduce San Francisco's high rate of fatal drug overdoses, the public health department co-sponsored a symposium on the only such facility in North America, a 4-year-old Vancouver site where an estimated 700 users a day self-administer narcotics under medical supervision.
Sixty-five similar facilities exist in 27 cities in eight countries
Drug overdoses represented about one of every seven emergency calls handled by city paramedics from July 2006 to July 2007, according to San Francisco Fire Department Capt. Niels Tangherlini. The number of overdose deaths has declined from 160 in 1995 to 40 in 2004, he said.
Colfax said there are 11,000 to 15,000 intravenous drug users in San Francisco, most of them homeless men. The city operates a clean-needle exchange program to reduce HIV and hepatitis C infections.
Vancouver's InSite program, exempt from federal drug laws, is located in a downtown building where drug users have access to 12 private booths to inject drugs such as heroin, cocaine or crystal.
While 800 overdoses have occurred on the premises, Thomas Kerr, a University of British Columbia researcher who has studied the program, said none of them resulted in death because of the medical supervision provided at InSite.
His research also has shown an increase in addicts seeking drug treatment and a decrease in abandoned syringes, needle-sharing, drug-related crimes and other problems since the clinic opened, he said.
I know this site has more than its fair share of rednecks and Kanadian Krakkkers but let me ask you one simple question anyway: Do you prefer that these human beings die?
When Plan A isn't working it's time to try Plan B. As much as you might hate drug addiction you have to admit that making criminals out of junkies has not been an effective strategy. Heroin has been illegal for what, 60 years? It's time to be more concerned about successfully responding to a serious problem than venting one's moral outrage.
Right on, Justice Pitfield, you've got balls and brains!
I know this site has more than its fair share of rednecks and Kanadian Krakkkers...
So you have just over 360 posts and you think you are qualified to make that generalization?
Yeah, it doesn't take much to figure it out.
Why? Does someone being against any form of drug abuse make them a redneck? I'll bet you'd be willing to call me a redneck but I'm not totally against the needle exchange. I don't own any guns, or a pickup either. There are only two people I can identify as rednecks on this forum and that's because they use the term in their screen name.
Yeah, it doesn't take much to figure it out.
Why? Does someone being against any form of drug abuse make them a redneck? I'll bet you'd be willing to call me a redneck but I'm not totally against the needle exchange. I don't own any guns, or a pickup either. There are only two people I can identify as rednecks on this forum and that's because they use the term in their screen name.
It's not just a collection of possessions, it's a state of mind, particularly one of proud ignorance and mean-spiritedness toward that which one doesn't understand. There is a lot of that around here.