Originally Posted by Smokescreen
It's true, they give out clean drugs and then supervise them in 'safe consumption' sites. I have one about 1 mile from where I work.
So an addict come in multiple times a day, push the envelope each high, without worry. Instead of rolling the dice on a bad batch or OD, complete freedom to indulge.
End result: more people use the site everyday, publicly high people increasing, stray dirty needle numbers increasing in a 5 block radius, high people using the outside as a public toilet, surrounding businesses packing up and moving, shockingly the percentage of addicts rehabilitated remains unchanged.
...what Einstein thought that would be a great idea?
In the video "You can't change for anyone else, you have to change for yourself" ...as she shoots up. Pretty much wraps it up in a nutshell.
The numbers probably used to drop because the addicts use to die off. Now new addicts end up showing up and the old ones don't end up dying so now you end up with more addicts. I think in our state there were about 2000 drug overdose deaths last year and over 20k emergency calls for drug overdoses.
No opinions, just facts.