Life in Foreign can get QUITE incredible at times, when I try to think about what might have happened at home given the same circumstances. I mean, the things people try to do here for the sake of being forward-thinking. Imagine some place in San Francisco providing a facility, with clean syringes, and staffed with nurses, for drug addicts to go shoot up! All under the premise of supervision preventing deaths from overdoses! You know? If anything "goes wrong" there's nurses on hand. It's also meant to provide a clean environment to prevent spreading disease by needle-sharing.
Check out this article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/16/BA78SQEG7.DTL
Umm... forgive me if I'm thinking too much ahead here but aren't drugs of that sort illegal? And isn't anyone thinking of using this funding (cuz this stuff certainly can't be free) for additional rehab/detox centers? Maybe I just can't wrap my little mind around this one... or maybe I shoulda waited to write this one, cool off and think. Maybe there are benefits. Maybe they do prevent OD's. Maybe they do get addicts to come in to detox after a while. Maybe, well no, I CAN see how it actually would prevent passing on diseases through dirty needles. But still, this is really the only avenue our great minds could have found to combat this problem?
C'mon now...
Check out this article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/16/BA78SQEG7.DTL
Umm... forgive me if I'm thinking too much ahead here but aren't drugs of that sort illegal? And isn't anyone thinking of using this funding (cuz this stuff certainly can't be free) for additional rehab/detox centers? Maybe I just can't wrap my little mind around this one... or maybe I shoulda waited to write this one, cool off and think. Maybe there are benefits. Maybe they do prevent OD's. Maybe they do get addicts to come in to detox after a while. Maybe, well no, I CAN see how it actually would prevent passing on diseases through dirty needles. But still, this is really the only avenue our great minds could have found to combat this problem?
C'mon now...
1 comment:
it does seem a very weird thing....
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