There is an issue they we need more then just safe consumption sites. We need the support network to help people get out of the situations that are causing them to use. And we don’t have that.
You’re right, but that’s not a reason to close safe injection sites. Generally, we need to stop treating addicts like criminals. Addiction is a disease, and the corrective action is healthcare.
The disease model of addiction is popular among laypeople but has been viewed as a harmful (or as least less helpful) model by researchers for more than a couple decades.
That’s too complicated. The easy answer is that addicts are bad evil people who deserve to live in misery and agony and any kindness towards them is an act of moral weakness.
It’s not allll we do, safe injection sites are one of the methods of establishing relationships with addicts. They are exposed to and actively offered other interventions. Yes, we need to provide more interventions, because there are often long waiting lists (ie several YEARS long) to get more than the most basic help. Defunding safe injection sites isn’t going to advance that goal.
Where do you get your information about the subject?
There is an issue they we need more then just safe consumption sites. We need the support network to help people get out of the situations that are causing them to use. And we don’t have that.
You’re right, but that’s not a reason to close safe injection sites. Generally, we need to stop treating addicts like criminals. Addiction is a disease, and the corrective action is healthcare.
The disease model of addiction is popular among laypeople but has been viewed as a harmful (or as least less helpful) model by researchers for more than a couple decades.
Addiction is not caused by drugs at all per se. The circumstances of a person’s life predict addiction overwhelmingly over the mere taking of a drug.
The corrective measure IMHO is UBI. But that reduces the ability of capital to exploit labour.
Yes but policy makers HATE to acknowledge that poverty and social issues underlie many of our problems.
That’s too complicated. The easy answer is that addicts are bad evil people who deserve to live in misery and agony and any kindness towards them is an act of moral weakness.
/s for contextually impaired.
Safe injection sites are clearly a part of that support network.
Sure but they can’t be alll we do and that seems to be all we do. Which is not helping anyone.
It’s not allll we do, safe injection sites are one of the methods of establishing relationships with addicts. They are exposed to and actively offered other interventions. Yes, we need to provide more interventions, because there are often long waiting lists (ie several YEARS long) to get more than the most basic help. Defunding safe injection sites isn’t going to advance that goal.
Where do you get your information about the subject?